Gleycy Correia, Miss Brazil 2018, died Monday, June 20 at the age of 27. The young woman had been in a coma for more than two months after a simple surgery that went wrong.
The world of Misses is once again in mourning. A few months after the death of a former Miss USA, another beauty queen has tragically passed away. It is Gleycy Correia, Miss Brazil 2018. His family announced his death on Monday, June 20, on his Instagram account. The 27-year-old, from Macaé, a town 180 km north of Rio de Janeiro, was in a coma for 77 days following a trivial tonsil surgery gone wrong. Indeed, a few days after the intervention, Gleycy Correia suffered unusual complications.
“She had surgery to remove her tonsils and after five days at home, she had a hemorrhage. She went to the hospital and did cardiac arrest April 4. Since then, she was in the coma, without neurological activityand today she died”explained a priest close to the family of the former Miss Brazil to the Mirror, Monday, June 20. The beauty queen, who became an influencer specializing in permanent makeup, died Monday morning at the private hospital Unimed Costa do Sol, in the center of Macaé, where she had been in a coma since her operation. His funeral took place Tuesday, June 21, in the morning, in his hometown.
The family of Gleycy Correia denounces a medical error
While in hospital, Gleycy Correia’s family used her Instagram account, which has 55,000 followers, to spread many prayers in the hope that she recovers. Pastor Jak Abreu, very famous in Brazil and who knew the victim’s family well, said on social networks that his relatives complained of a medical error during the operation. The body of the young woman was sent to the Macaé Institute of Forensic Medicine for an autopsy, according to the Mirror. The preliminary report indicated that various complications had caused the death of the ex-Missincluding pneumonia, anoxic encephalopathy, cardiorespiratory arrest, but also hemorrhagic shock and tonsillar artery hemorrhage.