Hong Kong doctor guilty of manslaughter after beauty treatment blunder killed client
- High Court jury returns unanimous verdict against Dr Mak Wan-ling, 39, after less than seven hours of deliberations in her second trial over 2012 death of Chan Yuen-lam, 46
- She was accused of performing injection without obtaining proper consent and ensuring blood product was properly handled and free of contamination
A doctor has been found guilty of manslaughter for administering an experimental immunity boosting therapy that killed a healthy woman in the worst beauty treatment blunder Hong Kong has seen.
A High Court jury of four men and five women on Tuesday returned the unanimous verdict against Dr Mak Wan-ling, 39, following less than seven hours of deliberations in her second trial over the death of Chan Yuen-lam, 46, in 2012.
Mak cried in the dock even before the jury foreman announced the verdict. She was remanded in custody until her mitigation hearing on Wednesday afternoon.
The general practitioner was accused of unlawfully killing Chan by gross negligence, through breaching a duty of care she owed to the woman, by performing an injection without obtaining proper consent and ensuring the blood product infused was properly handled and free of contamination.
Chan died a week later on October 10, 2012 of multi-organ failure and septicaemia as a result of Mycobacterium abscessus, bacteria later found on the pipette guns and centrifugal machine that handled her blood in the laboratory, Asia Pacific Stem Cell Science.
