Warning over cut-price cosmetic surgery in Turkey as six Brits dead

Cut-price cosmetic country successful Turkey has prompted the authorities to contented a informing aft shocking caller figures revealed six Britons died past year.

The Foreign Office alert comes amid renewed calls advising radical against seeking fund operations successful the country. At slightest 29 Britons person present died from bungled country successful Turkey since 2019 - with galore much suffering devastating complications oregon bodged jobs.

The informing connected the gov.uk website states: “The modular of aesculapian facilities and disposable treatments tin alteration wide globally and besides wrong countries. We are alert of six British nationals having died successful Turkey successful 2023 pursuing aesculapian procedures. Some British nationals person besides experienced complications and needed further attraction oregon country pursuing their procedure.”

Medical tourism to Turkey has boomed pursuing the pandemic with numbers surging year-on-year.

A grounds 1.4 cardinal wellness tourists visited Turkey successful 2023 – generating £2billion for the economy. Those seeking value nonaccomplishment country look years-long NHS waiting lists for gastric surgeries oregon £12,000 bills for going private.

Yet successful Turkey, the backstage country tin outgo conscionable £3,000.

Hairdresser Kaydell Brown, 38, died successful March aft travelling to Istanbul for a £4k ‘mummy MOT’.

The mother-of-two, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, paid £5,400 for a Brazilian butt lift, a tummy tuck and bosom surgery. Tragically, she ne'er came retired of country aft suffering a suspected humor clot.

Heartbroken sister Leanne, 40, aboriginal slammed the clinic, calling it a “pop-up butcher shop”.

Emma Morrissey, 44, from Warrington, Cheshire. died from a bungled gastric sleeve cognition that was expected to springiness her a caller accidental of life.

She chose the Private Termessos Hastanesi infirmary successful Antalya, whose website boasts: “We person the champion doctors successful Turkey.”

The infirmary was aboriginal blasted by a coroner successful the UK implicit preventable failings which led to Emma bleeding to decease successful July 2022.

Last night, erstwhile Tory MP Sir Robert Buckland urged those reasoning of travelling to Turkey for country to deliberation twice.

He said: “People indispensable instrumentality large attraction earlier opting for chopped terms cosmetic country overseas that, arsenic we person seen each excessively often, tin extremity successful tragedy. Cheaper country successful Turkey comes astatine a price, which is little information and objective standards.

“The connection has to be: Please don’t enactment yourself astatine hazard and origin misery to you and your loved ones.”

The ASA advertizing watchdog this twelvemonth launched a large crackdown connected cosmetic tourism firms connected societal media. They accused firms based successful Turkey of putting unit connected imaginable customers, trivialising superior surgical procedures and exploiting insecurities astir assemblage image.

A authorities spokesperson said: “We impulse anyone considering a cosmetic process overseas to probe the attraction successful question, the qualifications of their clinician and the regulations that use successful the state they are travelling to, careless of wherever immoderate consultation takes place.

“The UK authorities has been actively engaging with the Turkish authorities connected however to enactment the information of patients who determine they privation to question to Turkey for aesculapian treatment.”