Alessandra dos Santos Silva, 35, a passista at the Academicos do Grande Rio school, was admitted to Hospital da Mulher Heloneida Studart in Rio de Janeiro in February after scans last August found the growths in her uterus. 

But complications from the surgery meant that she needed a total hysterectomy – and then doctors decided they couldn’t save her arm, which had become necrotic.

After the amputation, Ms Silva was released from hospital but an appointment a few days later raised serious concerns about her stitches. The dancer was forced to approach several hospitals before she was admitted. 

The series of failures is being investigated by the Rio de Janeiro Health Department and the Civil Police and an inquiry will be held into what happened at the Heloneida Studart Women’s Hospital.

The dancer was admitted to the Heloneida Studart Women’s Hostpial for her initial surgery for uterine fibroids on February 3, g1 reported. 

She was operated on in the morning but later that evening doctors discovered a haemorrhage and it was decided she would need a total hysterectomy. 

Family members visiting the dancer realised that her hand and legs, which were bandaged, were cold, and that her fingers had darkened. 

On February 6, her family was told that she needed to be transferred to the State Institute of Cardiology Aloysio de Castro (Iecac), in Botafogo. Family members say by that point, the intubated Ms Silva’s arm was practically black. 

But efforts by doctors there to save her dying limb failed and on February 10 her family was told that she would die without amputation. Ms Silva’s kidneys and liver were failing. 

When Ms Silva woke up, she did not know that her arm had been amputated  

She was released on February 15 but when she returned a few weeks later, doctors were very concerned about the condition of her stitches. 

Ms Silva was readmitted to hospital on March 4 and would stay for a month before finally being healthy enough to be discharged. 

The dancer, who has been engaged for 11 years, said she dreamed of having children. 

She doesn’t know how she is going to be able to make a living, either dancing or working in beauty salons with one hand. 

‘I want those responsible to pay, for the hospital to take responsibility, because they managed to end my life. They destroyed my work, my career, my dream… everything,’ the passista said. 

Her family say she’s only alive thanks to the tireless help of her friends, who fought to get her back into hospital. 

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In a latest interview, he revealed he used to be a dancer before poverty led him to change his career to singing.

He made this known while speaking in an interview with ABC as he recounted his boyhood days and how his parents’ love for music had inspired his career.

Asake said that he had been exposed early on at a young age to music by his classical-music-loving parents who always played records in their home.

Speaking on his love for dancing, he said that he had once been a dancer in the past, but at a point, he began to fall in love with the idea of having money too.

According to Asake, he realised that dancing alone wouldn’t be able to make him the money he wants so he began singing.

Asake said: “My parents used to play me a lot of classical songs. They love listening to songs. The kind of father I have is the one that will wake up in the morning and have one cigarette then loud music.

“At the end of the day, I feel like I can actually sing. Then I added music to it. Maybe because I know how to dance then I know how to bounce on music. I actually don’t want to be a musician in the first place. I just wanted to dance. It feels like water. I love everything that comes with dancing.

“But at the end of the day, after dancing I fell in love with having money too. Then I started thinking about it, is dance going to give me the kind of money I want?”

In a spontaneous move, Eno Barony invited a student to join her on stage, and during the performance, one of her plus-size dancers surprised the audience by doing a split and jumping onto the student who was lying on the floor.

However, some social media users expressed concern over the impact of the landing on the student, questioning whether he was hurt.

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