Routine procedure results in shock death at Marbella hospital

An investigation is under way into the unexpected and dramatic death of Víctor Manuel Alba, at just 33 years of age, which took place in Hospital Clínico on 10 March.

Víctor, who had just discovered his wife, Victoria, was 11 weeks pregnant with his child, had originally been admitted to hospital for a simple, routine operation on a bunion. However, during the operation, he suffered a seven-minute cardiac arrest, which caused damage to his brain and put him in a deep coma for 16 days before he died.