Pergine Valsugana, teacher, dies after eight months in a coma due to cosmetic surgery

Clara Palaoro, a 56-year-old teacher from Pergine Valsugana, Trentino, died after eight months in a vegetative coma following a cosmetic surgery operation that should have been routine. The woman had undergone surgery in a private clinic in the province of Vicenza and, in the following hours, her health situation suddenly took a turn for the worse.

After months in a rehabilitation facility in Trentino, further aggravation and death at the Santa Chiara hospital. According to the local press, the victim's family members have presented a complaint to the judiciary asking to investigate the causes that led to the teacher's death. The Vicenza prosecutor's office has opened a case.

«It was supposed to be a small aesthetic intervention like many are done – the companion tells Il Dolomiti – We would never have imagined that this tragedy would happen. We showed up at the clinic at 8 in the morning, as requested. No one could have imagined that that small operation would forever mark the life of Clara who left the facility in a coma, never waking up again."