DOCTOR JAILED FOR GROSS NEGLIGENCE MANSLAUGHTER OVER DEATH OF A LIPOSUCTION PATIENT: HKSAR v KWAN HAU CHI, VANESSA [2021] HKCFI 2978
Before: Hon D’Almada Remedios J in Court
Date of Reasons for Sentence: 4 October 2021
In 2014, Ms Lee Kar-ying Josephine (“P”) died following a liposuction procedure performed by a registered medical practitioner, the defendant (“D”), at the “Regrowth Hair Transplant Centre Ltd” on the 7th floor of No. 2 Carnarvon Road.
During the procedure, P was administered sedative drugs by D, who was only assisted by 2 receptionists and 2 beaut ...