South China Morning Post
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Singapore doctor jailed over woman’s death during beauty treatment
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A Singapore doctor was sentenced to 18 months in jail for administering EDTA chelation therapy at dangerously high concentration and speed to a patient during a beauty treatment, causing her death from cardiac arrest, and subsequently concealing this fact from her family and medical professionals.
Singapore doctor jailed over woman’s death during beauty treatment
A doctor was sentenced to 18 months’ jail on Thursday for administering a substance to a woman as part of an aesthetic treatment that killed her.
The ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) was administered too quickly and at too high a concentration, causing 31-year-old Lau Li Ting to develop EDTA toxicity, which led to cardiac arrest and death.
Dr Chan Bingyi later concealed the fact that he had administered EDTA to the victim from her family, paramedics and doctors, in what the judge said was.
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