A court in Singapore sentenced a doctor to 18 months in jail after finding him responsible for the death of a 31-year-old woman who suffered a cardiac arrest during an aesthetic procedure in 2019. Dr Chan Bingyi, 38, was convicted of committing a negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide over the death of Lau Li Ting, a property agent who died five days after taking chelation treatment at Revival Medical & Aesthetics Centre in Bras Basah. The court heard that Chan had intravenously administered ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, or EDTA, a chemical generally used to treat heavy metal poisoning or dangerously high calcium levels though there was no medical need for it . He then “wilfully” withheld that EDTA had been administered from Lau’s family, paramedics and treating doctors, the judge said, calling it “deplorable conduct” carried out for “self-preservation”. The court also learned that Chan did not keep proper clinical notes or items used during the procedure.…