KUALA LUMPUR, April 9 ― A Malaysian hospital which performed plastic surgery on an Australian who died weeks after the procedures has insisted that he received the best care, amid an Australian investigation on his death.

When commenting on Leigh Aiple's surgeries two years ago costing AU$35,000, Malaysia's Beverly Wilshire Medical Centre said it had taken all the necessary steps to minimise all possible risks to the 31-year-old man, including the prevention of a deep vein thrombosis, or blood clot.

“Beverly Wilshire Medical Centre and our team had given the best of medical and surgical care to Leigh throughout his stay for medical treatment here,” it was quoted saying in a statement carried by Australian paper The Age yesterday.

“Full explanation had been given to the patient prior to surgery with regards to the multiple procedures to be performed within the short time frame, post-operative care and the possible risks and complications,” the Kuala Lumpur-based centre said.

Earlier this week, a Beverly Wilshire representative had said: “This is an extremely rare and complicated incident, it is still ongoing for full investigation and Dr Nasir will give an explanation to the public later when the case have concluded from all relevant parties.”

The cosmetics clinic was referring to its medical director Dr Mohamad Nasir Zahar who had operated on Aiple and reportedly gave him clearance on May 10, 2014, to fly back to Australia.

According to The Age, Aiple died in Melbourne, Australia, on May 12, 2014, after a blood clot in his calf went to his lungs following a flight home from Malaysia.

A coroner had then recorded Aiple's cause of death as a pulmonary embolism or a blood clot in the lungs that was tied to deep vein thrombosis, The Age said, noting that a pathologist found his recent surgery and flight as risk factors.

In 2014, Aiple had reportedly undergone two extensive plastic surgeries in a short time of just days apart, including procedures such as a 360-degree tummy tuck, liposuction, an upper eye lift, a chin tuck, lip filler, thigh lift and chest sculpting.

Aiple's mother Grace Muscat reportedly spoke of complications from his surgeries, such as gaping holes from stitches that had burst open and leaking wounds, as well as her son's complaints of leg and ankle swelling that were allegedly not examined.

According to the medical travel agency Gorgeous Getaways which arranged for Aiple's plastic surgery trip, Aiple was found in a blood-stained hotel room in Malaysia with fluid leakages from his side and a 10-centimetre wound on his back exposed after stitches came apart.

While still in Malaysia on May 9, 2014, Aiple wrote an email to his mother, saying that he had fainted the previous day in the bathroom and woke up on the bathroom floor lying in his own diarrhoea.

“I started hyperventilating and couldn't breathe. My chest was tight and heartbeat was dangerously rapid ... I've had no energy for four days now.

“They don't seem able to solve my issues here, they just say 'I've never seen your kind of case before'. It's a little scary hearing that,” he was quoted writing.

Although Aiple was set to see a doctor in Australia on the morning of May 12, Muscat found her son at 6am struggling to breathe and he was verified as dead within the hour.

The coroner in Australian state Victoria has now launched an investigation into his death after a law firm acting for Aiple's family pushed for the probe.