Hunt for ‘Dr Bumbum’ after woman dies following botched bottom enhancement

A BRAZILIAN plastic surgeon known as “Dr Bumbum” is on the run after a patient died hours after he performed a bottom enhancement procedure on her at an apartment in Rio de Janeiro.

Dr Denis Furtado, 45, is a social media celebrity, with 650,000 followers on Instagram where he routinely posts before and after photographs of enhancements he has performed.

Police are now looking for him following the death of Lilian Quezia Calixto hours after surgery on Sunday. Dr Furtado is wanted on charges of qualified homicide because investigators believe he used excessive levels of a controversial acrylic filler, permitted by the National Agency of Sanitary Surveillance but with advised use in small amounts.

Brazilian media reports that Dr Furtado took Ms Calixto to a hospital when she began to experience an elevated heartbeat and hypertensions following the procedure. She died in hospital after suffering four heart attacks.

Dr Furtado was not a specialised plastic surgeon, according to Dr Niveo Steffen, the Brazilian Plastic Surgery Society president. “Plastic surgery is much esteemed in Brazil, but social media provides a lot of opportunities for unethical people to sell unachievable dreams,” he told The Daily Telegraph.

Maria de Fátima Barros, Dr Furtado’s mother, has also fled. Also formerly a doctor, her medical licence had been revoked in 2015.

She reportedly worked with Dr Furtado as an administrator. Renata Fernandes, his girlfriend and reported assistant, was arrested on Sunday and charged with qualified homicide.