Betsabe Cornejo, the mother of Catherine Cando, the Ecuadorian beauty queen who died after undergoing liposuction, discussed the dangers of plastic surgery earlier this week.

Cornejo is slamming Cando's surgeon for not having informed her of her daughter's death earlier. She told Ecuavisa that she didn't learn of her daughter's death until almost 10 hours later, People En Español reports.

"No one ever came out ..." she said. "You know when they came out? When one sees that a two-hour operation -- until four in the afternoon they didn't say anything to me ... Like all mothers, I was entering a kind of desperation."

Cando, 19, went in at 8:23 a.m. for the liposuction procedure, and her family didn't find out about her death until 6 p.m.

According to People En Español, El Comercio reports that the family said no tests were run on the beauty queen before the procedure.

The clinic had different reasons for Cando's death.

"The clinic's lawyer said her death was because of cardiac arrest, but we have a copy of the autopsy and the results say the cause was because of a cerebral edema, this is presumably because of problems with anesthesia," Carlos Reyes, the family's lawyer, reportedly told El Comercio.

In October 2014, Cando won a beauty pageant in Duran. One of her prizes was the procedure; at the beginning Cando said she didn't want to have liposuction surgery.

"She didn't want to undergo this surgery. Sghe didn't need it, but the doctor who operated on her insisted," Daniel Zavala, Cando's brother, reportedly told El Comercio.

Ambar Fraga, Cando's cousin, echoed Zavala's statements. Fraga said that Cando was very confident with her body but ended up being persuaded.

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