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Chinese netizens again called for stricter regulations in the cosmetic surgery industry after news began making the rounds that a 33-year-old web celebrity living in East China had died of serious infection on Tuesday after undergoing liposuction. 

The tragedy of Xiaoran began trending on the platform not long after her death, with related hashtag earning more than 700 million.

The beauty clinic in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, where Xiaoran underwent liposuction twice, has admitted responsibility for her death, which it said stems from mistakes made during surgery and delayed treatment after the surgeries. The clinic has been closed by local authorities, the report added.

Xiaoran's relatives are seeking compensation in the sum of 6 million yuan ($920,000) from the clinic, which has has not responded to the demand, according to a report from China Network.

According to reports, the web celebrity arrived at the clinic alone in May for a consultation and the doctor recommended she undergo three surgeries: waist and abdomen liposuction, upper arm liposuction and breast augmentation surgery.

According to surgery records, she underwent all three procedures that same day, spending more than five hours in total under the knife. 

Two days later, on May 4, Xiaoran still felt pain and was experiencing shortness of breath. She called for emergency services and was admitted to a general hospital in Hangzhou.

Her relatives were informed by the hospital later that day that Xiaoran had suffered multiple organ failure and was in the ICU. Doctors told her family that her situation was critical as the best window for treatment had been missed.

Although the family transferred Xiaoran the following day to a larger and better equipped hospital, where the young woman underwent two whole-body sterilization surgeries, she remained in critical condition. After two months of fighting, she finally died in the ICU of multiple organ failure on Tuesday.

Xiaoran's death has caused the subject of cosmetic surgery to become the center of public discussion once again in China. 

Some netizens emphasized the risk that plastic surgery poses and called for people to worry less about their appearance, while more netizens called for the government to take a stricter hand in regulating the booming plastic surgery industry.

Source:globaltimes

Editor: Crystal H

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