BBL Surgeries Almost Ended Thando Thabethe & Tumi's Lives

BBL Surgeries Almost Ended Thando Thabethe & Tumi's Lives

Pursuit for enhanced beauty turned into a nightmarish near-death experience for media personality Thando Thabethe and her friend Tumi Maimela.

Thando Thabethe and her friend reportedly almost died whilst getting cosmetic surgery at Vivari Aesthetics.

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The shocking details of their harrowing ordeal, involving excessive bleeding, heart failure, and subpar medical care, have recently come to light.

In a letter of complaint sent to the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) seen by Sunday World, Tumi Maimela revealed the distressing events that followed her and Thando Thabethe’s arrival at Vivari Aesthetics.

The procedures, including liposuction, breast reduction, 360 liposuction, and Brazilian Butt Lift surgeries, took an unexpected eight hours instead of the promised four-and-a-half.

Once I came to [the facility], I was placed in what they call a ‘specialized cosmetic surgery clinic and hospital’ at around 7.30 pm.

At around 11 pm, my drip came out as the nurse was helping me change position from my back to my stomach.

This nurse called my aesthetic doctor, Dineo Hamilton, who told her to put the drip back in, to which she explained she was unable to as she had never done this before.

Maimela recounted how her drip came out, leading to a series of complications. Her aesthetic doctor, Dineo Hamilton, struggled to reinsert the drip, leaving her without pain management throughout the night.

BBL Surgeries Almost Ended Thando Thabethe & Tumi's Lives

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Load shedding further worsened the situation, preventing the Vivari medical team from monitoring Maimela’s vital signs for several hours.

The aftermath of the surgeries revealed significant blood loss, causing Maimela’s hemoglobin levels to drop dangerously low and resulting in heart failure.

On the 16th of December, I was admitted to Life Fourways Hospital, where I was informed that I had lost a lot of blood during the surgery.

I was puzzled that so many professionals were in the room for the surgery and no one picked up that the amount of blood that was lost was enough to cause my haemoglobin level to drop to eight and therefore cause heart failure.

She alleged that the facility lacked adequate post-surgical care, with unregistered nurses and substandard equipment.

I was told I had a heart failure due to the amount of blood lost in the surgery.

My body was struggling to pump the little blood left after the surgery around my body, and my cardiologist said my heart was about to give in.

This could have been prevented had I had the adequate care needed for a surgery of this magnitude.

Thando Thabethe’s ordeal was no less distressing. Following her surgery, she experienced extreme swelling and had stitches opened to drain liquid resembling blood.

The situation escalated when a waterfall of blood gushed from her wounds, witnessed by Maimela. Dr. Anushka, a facility doctor, allegedly dismissed Thabethe’s concerns and referred to Vivari as not being a hospital.

BBL Surgeries Almost Ended Thando Thabethe & Tumi's Lives

My best friend, Thando Thabethe, had her lipo done the day after mine.

She ended up extremely swollen and they opened some stitches to let the liquid that looked like blood run out. She panicked and thought she was bleeding to death (sic).

Dr Anushka called me to the side when my friend was bleeding and asked me why she was acting up and as if she was going through PMS as her period had just started.

I was in the room when my friend was bleeding and it looked like a little waterfalls of blood gushing out of her. This was extremely traumatic for me to witness. She needed me.

Vivari Aesthetics took legal action against Thando Thabethe and Tumi Maimela for failing to settle their substantial bills for the procedures.

The facility filed a R5-million lawsuit against Maimela and her company Redwood Productions at the Johannesburg High Court.