A Santo Domingo court ordered three months preventive custody to sisters Pamela and Serena Stefani, accused of rendering services that seriously affected the health of 24 women. The women sued the physicians for mal practice, especially in the cases of performing hidrolipoclasia procedures. The medical specialists were sent to Najayo Women’s Jail. El Caribe reports that the women were nutritionists by profession and had not carried out the required plastic surgery specialization studies to carry out the esthetics procedures that caused the problems to their clients.
The Stefani Esthetic clinic located in Paraiso neighborhood was closed last year by the Ministry of Public Health after irregularities were detected by the Ministry.
The investigation so far has determined that the doctors used misleading promotions attracting customers with promises of short aesthetic processes that were non-invasive, without surgical procedures, or traumas that did not correspond to the procedures that actually were carried out with the problematic outcomes.
The interventions were carried out in the Center for Regenerative and Orthomolecular Medicine Dr. Stefani, as well as at the Stefani Stetic Center S.A. Medical Group, both located in the Ensanche Paraíso sector.
The 24 women grouped together to hire different lawyers to sue the sisters Pamela Stefani and Serena Stefani, who presented themselves as doctors in medicine with specialties in cosmetic surgery.
The victims stated that the processes performed by the accused did not correspond to what they had been offered, and that they caused serious injuries to those affected.
In the investigations of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, it was found that the Center for Regenerative and Orthomolecular Medicine, Dr. Stefani, had not been duly authorized by the Ministry of Public Health.
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24 January 2018
