With the conviction firm against him, Arzuza finds himself purging his sentence in the Gustavo André Penal Colony, located in Lavalle, which is an accommodation center with an open regime. This is because he obtained the benefit of a temporary departure of 12 hours every 21 days, as confirmed by judicial sources. On December 2, 2027, he will finish serving his sentence.
Serious complaint. The doctor Arzuza (left). Prosecutor Claudia Ríos (right) during the raid.
Arzuza was convicted of malpractice. When they raided his clinic, he was having surgery on his own penis.
Bad practice
Carlos Arzuza was a surgeon who treated and operated in a clinic located at 388 Alem Street, a few meters from the Central Hospital. The place did not have the corresponding authorizationbut that data emerged after December 2016. On the second day of that month, His patient Isabel Beatriz Gattari (48) came to the property to undergo lumbar liposuction, a demolipectomy and buttock implant placement.
A few hours later she was discharged and returned to her home located on Urquiza Street in Guaymallén. Her health began to deteriorate, mainly with severe pain. Arzuza visited her five days after the operation to give her pain medication. But minutes later, the woman died from a pulmonary thromboembolism.
Two days after the death, the prosecutor Claudia Ríos led a raid on the clandestine clinic. He came across a bizarre scene: Arzuza was undergoing an operation to suture some wounds after a penis enlargement. Also there was his partner, Laura Dutta, who would also end up charged but was acquitted at trial. Both They were drugged, apparently on opium.
The place was in terrible condition: There were even some empanadas inside the oven used to sterilize surgical instruments.
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In 2019, the surgeon was tried and convicted of the crime of Betty Gattari. They sentenced him to 4 years in prison under the figure of manslaughter – a negligent act -, the same degree of intentionality for which the doctor Lotocki was sentenced in Buenos Aires.
Prosecutor Ríos appealed the ruling and He managed to get the Supreme Court of Justice to change the classification to simple homicide with eventual intent – from 8 to 25 years in prison. That is to say, the doctor knew that at the time of operating he was doing so without the necessary conditions, knowing the lethal danger for the victim, and he continued with her actions in the same way.
Under this new figure, the case returned to a court of first instance that convicted him last December. to 10 years in prison. The sentence was consolidated into a total of 11 years in prison since the surgeon had a previous sentence of 4 and a half years in prison for the death of Roberto del Barco.a businessman who On July 15, 2013, she underwent liposuction at the Excellar Clinic but died when anesthesia was administered without the presence of an anesthetist.
