Mum woke up from £3k Turkey weight loss surgery with 'stomach' in carrier bag next to her
27.11.2023 - 13:22
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mum has warned others of cheap foreign weight loss surgery after waking up to find her stomach in a bag next to her - which she had to throw in the bin. Rosie Ritchie, 24, flew to Turkey for a £3k gastric sleeve operation with a cosmetic surgery provider.
But she has described walls covered with blood and being strapped to an operating table by her wrists and ankles. Post-surgery she says she woke up with a medical bag next to her - with what looked like meat in.
Rosie says she was told they were the remains of her stomach – and it needed to be kept with her for 72 hours in case it needed to be ‘put back in'. She claims it was left next to her for three days, unrefrigerated in a sweltering room, until it grew mouldy and Rosie threw it in the bin herself.
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Describing the ordeal, she said: ''I looked in one of the rooms downstairs and there was a huge jar filled with the fat they remove from liposuctions. The room was covered with blood, all over the walls and the floor. It looked like a massacre.
“That’s when I fully started to panic. I wanted to go home. They put me in the theatre, and the surgical team were speaking Turkish, so I couldn’t understand a word of it. They didn’t say anything to me.
“They asked me to lie down, and they strapped my ankles and wrists down to the bed while one of the women just stroked my face. I was asking for someone to please tell me what was happening – but they couldn’t understand me, and I couldn’t understand them. I thought I was going to die.”
She added: ''I woke up and looked to my side – and there