2023-05-06 01:58:05
Ecuadorian plastic surgeon Bolívar Guerrero Silva, accused of medical error and keeping a patient in private prison
Alexia Sousa
Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Ecuadorian plastic surgeon Bolívar Guerrero Silva, accused of medical error and keeping a patient in private prison, returned to perform surgeries at the same hospital where the complaint occurred, in Baixada Fluminense. He left prison in February this year by order of Justice.
On social media, where he publicizes his work, Silva announces that the procedures are still taking place at the private hospital Santa Branca, in Duque de Caxias. With more than 42,000 followers on Instagram, he also informs the number of vacancies he has for service that week, with the warning that there are few.
The doctor’s defense confirmed that he has returned to care since he was released and that there are no impediments for the surgeon to practice his profession.
The Cremerj (Regional Council of Medicine of the State of Rio de Janeiro) said that the investigation on behalf of the professional is in progress and runs in secrecy. On the institution’s website, he has been registered since 1996.
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Silva was arrested in July last year after housewife Daiane Chaves Cavalcanti was hospitalized for complications from an aesthetic procedure on her abdomen.
The case reached the police through the patient’s family. Weeks after the surgery, performed in March of that year, the woman became ill and had to be seen again, according to family members. Since then, she has been admitted to Santa Branca hospital. At the time, she denounced that she was kept in private prison in the health unit because Bolivar would not release her.
Daiana Cavalcanti filed a claim for compensation for moral damages worth R$ 200,000 against the Santa Branca hospital and the doctor.
The surgeon appears as managing partner of the hospital in the proof of enrollment and registration status of the company issued by the Federal Revenue website. Hospital Santa Branca denies that the patient was kept in the unit against her will and says that she received the care she needed.
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The surgeon’s defense argues that there was no false imprisonment because the patient was not prevented from leaving, she would only have to sign a term of responsibility.
Other patients reported deformations and sequelae after undergoing operations with the surgeon. The women claim that, in addition to not having the expected result with the surgeries, they suffered complications and health problems.
Bolívar Guerrero Silva was imprisoned for seven months in the Pedrolino Werling de Oliveira prison, in Bangu 8, in the Penitentiary Complex of Gericinó, in the west zone of Rio.
Initially, he was accused of attempted murder, but after hearings of the case, the Public Ministry asked for the withdrawal of the charges of attempted murder against Daiana. The prosecuting body understood that the patient’s life was not at risk.
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With that, the 2nd Prosecutor’s Office for Criminal Justice concluded that there was no intention to kill on the part of the doctor, “although there are other crimes and infractions that will continue to be investigated”, says part of the decision.
Silva had already been arrested in 2010, after an operation by the Civil Police of Rio against a group accused of selling and applying medicines without registration at Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency).
The scheme had been running since 2005. The owner of a pharmaceutical laboratory that produced the botulinum toxin, Botox, sent the products from Goiás to Rio, where there was a redistribution to private clinics. The unregistered product was sold at half the normal commercial price at the time. One such buying clinic was that of Bolívar Guerrero Silva.
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