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Mum-of-two dies after flying to Turkey for £2,750 weight loss surgery
A 54-year-old mother-of-two has sadly passed away after travelling to Turkey for a gastric sleeve operation, which led to her suffering a cardiac arrest and dying
Janet went into cardiac arrest during the surgery and eventually died in the intensive care unit in August 2023 due to acute blood loss. Janet reached out to a company called Regenesis Health Travel last year to organise the surgery and within 24 hours she had booked her trip to Turkey. North West Wales senior coroner Kate Robertson said notes taken by the surgeon, Dr Ramazan Azar, revealed Janet had a 3-4mm "defect" in her aorta artery when the gastric sleeve operation began, which led to heavy bleeding.
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