A British woman says she is stranded in Turkey after suffering serious complications from botched cosmetic procedures, including two bouts of sepsis.
28-year-old mother of one Cennet Lo flew to Bodrum in April to receive a tummy tuck, liposuction and a Brazilian butt lift.
However, four months later, she remains in Turkey recuperating after her cosmetic procedure went horribly wrong.
Speaking to ITV News, Lo recalled how he woke up in the middle of surgery.
‘I remember waking up and putting my head down and seeing liposuction being done on my stomach’.
A British woman says she is stranded in Turkey after suffering serious complications from botched cosmetic procedures, including two bouts of sepsis.
Cennet Lo, 28, has recalled the trauma of her botched Turkish cosmetic surgery
Lo flew to Bodrum in April to receive a tummy tuck, liposuction and a Brazilian butt lift
About two weeks after the surgery, Lo explained that the pain began to worsen.
He returned to the UK and was admitted to hospital twice, but eventually had to fly back to Turkey on May 20 after he was told surgeons had to carry out corrective work.
“I was afraid to sleep because I thought I was going to die,” she said.
Since she first went under the knife a few months ago, Lo has had to undergo four major surgeries to remove skin infections.
But even the corrective surgery has caused Lo grief.
He claimed that after suffering from sepsis twice, he went into surgery to close an open wound, only to wake up to find that the surgeon had given him a new stomach without his consent.
He also remembered how he had removed dead tissue from the wound without anesthesia.
‘They started cutting my stomach without local anaesthetic, no pain, nothing. They had to hold my legs, I had a woman hold my shoulders,’ he told ITV News.
But the horrific experience has caused Lo more than physical pain.
‘There are days when I’m in so much pain, I don’t want to be here’.
It comes after a British mum died after having a Brazilian butt lift in Turkey that she hoped would change her life.
Lo had to undergo four major surgeries to remove the skin infection
The horrific experience has caused Lo more than physical pain
‘There were days I was in so much pain, I didn’t want to be here’, he told ITV.
The number of complications from cosmetic surgery abroad is increasing
Kaydell Brown, 38, from Sheffield, paid £5,400 for a ‘mum MOT’ – a package deal involving a Brazilian butt lift, tummy tuck and boob lift. The cost in the UK is supposed to be around £15,000.
The hairdresser performed the procedure at the Expert Clinic in Istanbul on the morning of March 26, 2024, but never came out.
Her heartbroken sister Leanne, 40, who is due to have the same operation, has slammed the Turkish clinic, branding it a ‘pop-up butcher shop that should close’.
Leanne claimed that after the medics informed her of her sister’s death, she was given an envelope of cash and booked on the next plane.
“It’s like, ‘I’m sorry he’s dead, here’s your plane ticket”,” he told ITV.
Kaydell is hoping the surgery will get her ‘back on track’ after she lost weight due to an ankle injury, according to her sister.
The number of complications from cosmetic surgery abroad is increasing.
According to the Foreign Office, 28 Britons have died after cosmetic surgery in Turkey since 2019.
Meanwhile, the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), the need for hospital treatment in the UK after cosmetic surgery abroad has increased by 94 percent 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 that just six months ago.
The organization began to ‘join the dots’, as BAAPS president Marc Pacifico said, two years ago, when colleagues recorded stories of patients suffering complications from procedures abroad. ‘It became apparent that these stories were not the only ones,’ he recalls. They started an online database where those affected could share their experiences.
“One of the foundations of best practice for plastic surgery is whether you do the right surgery on the right person at the right time,” he said.
“We hear things like tummy tucks in diabetic patients with fat wheelchairs who were never considered for surgery. There are also a lot of really horrible stories about aftercare – or less than that.”