A British woman says she is stuck in Turkey after suffering serious complications from botched cosmetic procedures, including two bouts of sepsis.
Cennet Lo, 28, a mother of one, flew to Bodrum in April to receive a tummy tuck, liposuction and a Brazilian butt lift.
However, four months later, she remains in Turkey recovering after her cosmetic procedures went catastrophically wrong.
Speaking to ITV News, He recalled how he woke up in the middle of the operation.
‘I remember waking up, looking up and seeing that I was having liposuction on my stomach.’
A British woman says she is stuck in Turkey after suffering serious complications from botched cosmetic procedures, including two bouts of sepsis.
Cennet Lo, 28, recalled the trauma of her botched cosmetic operations in Türkiye
She flew him to Bodrum in April to receive a tummy tuck, liposuction and a Brazilian butt lift.
About two weeks after her surgery, Lo explained that her pain began to worsen.
She flew back to the UK and went to hospital twice, but eventually had to fly back to Turkey on May 20 after being told her surgeon needed to carry out corrective work.
“I was afraid to go to sleep because I really thought I was going to die,” she said.
Since her first surgery a few months ago, Lo has had to undergo four major surgeries to remove skin infections.
But even corrective surgeries have caused Lo distress.
She claimed that after contracting sepsis for a second time, she underwent surgery to close the open wound, but when she woke up she discovered that her surgeon had performed a new tummy tuck on her without her consent.
He also recalled how dead tissue was removed from a wound without any anesthesia.
“He started cutting into my stomach without any local anaesthetic, without any painkillers, without anything. They had to hold my legs and a woman was holding my shoulders,” she told ITV News.
But the horrific experience has caused Lo more than just physical pain.
‘There have been days when I’ve been in so much pain that I haven’t wanted to be here.’
This comes after a British mother died after undergoing a Brazilian butt lift in Turkey in the hope it would change her life.
He has had to undergo four major surgeries to remove skin infections.
The horrific experience has caused Lo more than just physical pain.
“There have been days when I’ve been in so much pain I didn’t want to be here,” she told ITV.
The number of complications arising from cosmetic surgery abroad has been increasing
Kaydell Brown, 38, from Sheffield, paid £5,400 for a “mummy MVI” – a package deal that included a Brazilian bum lift, a tummy tuck and a breast enlargement operation. The cost in Britain would have been around £15,000.
The hairdresser underwent the procedures at the Expert Clinic in Istanbul on the morning of March 26, 2024, but never came out.
Her heartbroken sister Leanne, 40, who was due to undergo the same surgery, criticised the Turkish clinic, calling it a “temporary carnage that needs to be closed”.
Leanne said that after doctors told her about her sister’s death, they handed her an envelope containing cash and booked her a place on the next flight home.
“It’s like, ‘I’m sorry, she’s dead, here’s your plane ticket,'” he told ITV.
Kaydell hoped the surgery would allow her to get her life back on track after gaining weight due to an ankle injury, according to her sister.
The number of complications resulting from cosmetic surgery abroad is increasing.
According to the Foreign Office, 28 Britons have died after undergoing cosmetic surgery in Turkey since 2019.
Meanwhile, according to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), the number of people needing hospital treatment in the UK after cosmetic surgery abroad has soared by 94 per cent in three years, from 57 in 2020 to 111 in 2022, with 124 cases so far this year, with procedures carried out in Turkey accounting for more than three-quarters of those in the past six months alone.
The organization began “connecting the dots,” as BAAPS president Marc Pacifico puts it, two years ago when his colleagues shared stories of patients with complications from procedures abroad. “It became clear that these stories were not isolated cases,” he recalls. He started an online database where those affected could share their experiences.
“One of the key aspects of best practices in plastic surgery is whether you’re doing the right surgery on the right person at the right time,” he says.
“We heard about things like tummy tucks on morbidly obese diabetic patients in wheelchairs who should never be considered for surgery. There were also a lot of absolutely terrible stories about aftercare, or lack thereof.”
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