Mother and daughter have traveled to another country to undergo plastic surgery and are now living in hell

A mother and her daughter Today they tell the hell they went through after deciding to travel to another country with the goal of both undergo surgery. The consequences, it seems, were not only suffered by them.

Many Brits are drawn to it economical packages offering accommodation, transportation and operations in Turkey, but cases of failed interventions that “they mutilated hundreds of people”local media say.

According to the data released, 324 people who attended there to undergo cosmetic procedures must have requested corrective surgery at the National Health Service (NHS). And tragically, many others have died, she says. Mirror.

mother and daughter in distress

Jacqui Wicks, 60 years oldand its daughter Tracy Visagie, 36 years oldrequested a thorough treatment on the NHS after the operations last April in the city of Smyrna.

A devastated Jacqui required emergency surgery after a abdominoplasty. “I’m in such a dark place and I wish I’d never had the surgery. I am not sleeping or eating. I’m have nightmares and I am a lot depressed“.

Alastair Brownmember of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, said: “The NHS needs to simplify what we can provide for cosmetic surgery patients overseas.”

“We can only perform life-saving surgeries for severe infections, skin necrosis, sepsis or severe infections, “he specifies. He adds:” Sometimes we can’t do it again, no matter how skilled we are. “

Sale of packages and doubts

Brown said people are being sold these “gorgeous surgery packages overseas, but why is it so cheap?”

In that line, it was blunt: “They do not receive adequate preoperative counseling like in the UK and the other big concern is after sales service. When patients are sent home too early and something goes wrong, where is the after-sales service?

Jacqui, originally from Ramsgate, Kent and Tracy packages booked through an external agency and were encouraged by the “positive reviews of surgeon Dr. Vugar Alakbarov”.

The budget difference speaks for itself: Jacqui was mentioned $ 12,000 for a tummy tuck in the UK, but only $ 4,700 in Turkey.

Tracy, unsure of loose skin, was told a tummy tuck and breast lift would cost her $ 15,500.

But for just $ 6,000, she was told she could get both treatments, as well as a variety of liposuction procedures from Dr. Alakbarov.

What did “the victims” say?

“I did a lot of research on the surgeon. The photos on his Instagram page looked amazing and my dream body finally seemed possible, ”says Tracy.

They say they first met their surgeon a few hours before the surgery. But after they recovered, they realized that something was wrong. Jacqui assures that the surgeon asked to record a video saying she was happy a few hours after the procedure.

“I had no idea what was under the dressing and now I know why some reviews are so good, why some people give them before a problem occurs,” he admits.

According to both women, the problems started three days later, back to your hotel. “We were in a lot of pain and my wound kept getting blacker. the doctor told us that we have not removed the tape for 14 days, that we couldn’t shower for a month, which one UK surgeon said was ridiculous. “

After nine days, the women returned to their country still suffering. And there the nightmare continued: “On the 14th I took off the adhesive tape I had on my stomach. Two days later, the black area had increased in size and oozed. A nurse looked at me and sent me straight to the emergency room. she had turned away necrotic and infected”, Jaqui reveals with anguish.

Surgery and new hell

Jacqui had to undergo emergency surgery remove dead tissue. Two weeks later, she collapsed at home and was taken back to the operating room. To hell with it, especially considering she was from a gallbladder operation years earlier.

In a text message exchange, the doctor noted that he could not monitor patients for a month and if he left “after the operation, the treatment is incomplete”.

Tracy met the same fate: dead tissue in the nipple has formed a hole in the breast. She was left with scars on both breasts, a misshapen navel, and a huge lump of skin under her pubic bone, they say. She claims according to MIrror that the surgeon decided not to perform some of the liposuction procedures without explanation.

“My body is a mess. Mom and I are devastated. I didn’t like my body before, but now I hate it, ”complains Tracy.

Tracy and Jacqui have now consulted with lawyers to decide next steps after the ordeal. The agency reportedly offered give women a full refund after contacting the newspaper for the story. In his response, they report, Alakbarov claimed that the women were gone “Three or four days” after surgery.

“In plastic surgery, correction may be needed in 15 to 20% of patients. For this (they) have to wait six months after the surgery. They came to me through (an) agency. This is why I am not even allowed to communicate with the patient, “she adds.

At least three dead

At least three British women died having been there for the procedure, with several surgeons, since 2018. Mother of three children, Lia Cambridge, 29 years oldshe underwent the procedure in Izmir in 2018 and passed away after suffering an arterial obstruction.

the future bride Melissa Kerr, 31from Norfolk, died on the operating table in Istanbul in November 2019 due to a pulmonary artery obstruction.

Y Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38 years oldA mother of three in Kent, she died two weeks after undergoing a butt lift and liposuction in August 2020.

only in 202175 women and seven men were treated in the National Health Service, for complications resulting from cosmetic surgery in Turkey.