A 26-year-old woman died after she was subjected to a “frankly barbaric” Brazilian butt lift procedure without giving informed consent, a coroner has ruled.
Yes, you read it right - 26 years old. Not 16.
Demi Agoglia travelled to Turkey for the operation after seeing celebrity endorsements for Istanbul-based Comfort Zone Surgery on social media. The mother of three was said to be “conscious about the way she looked” and was insistent on undergoing the procedure, which sees fat taken from elsewhere on the body and injected into the hips and buttocks.
And if you think that's a good idea, what's ever going to dissuade you? Certainly not a 'medical professional' from Turkey!
It later emerged that the Comfort Zone staff who were called out to the villa were not qualified nurses. The inquest heard that their “completely bizarre” actions included trying to feed pieces of cucumber to Agoglia after she collapsed.
Dr Omar Tillo, a Harley Street consultant plastic surgeon, told the inquest: “The lack of proper care and response, particularly the failure to address post-operative complications, are likely to have played a significant role in Demi’s tragic outcome.”
You don't say?
The Bolton coroner, John Pollard, ruled that the medical cause of death was a microscopic fat embolism in which tissue leaks into the bloodstream. Concluding that Agoglia had died as a result of misadventure contributed to by neglect, he said: “I find there was no proper informed consent in this matter, there was no proper pre-operative care and advice, and no proper post-operative care.
“All of this meant the care in total fell well below the standard expected of this type of treatment and the lack of care contributed significantly to Demi’s death.”
Well, it's a foreign country, so what on earth can anyone here do about it?
Pollard said he would write to the health secretary, Wes Streeting, adding: “I do feel something further needs to be done to stop this frankly barbaric medical practice being conducted to such low standards that would certainly not be tolerated in the UK.”
Then isn't it the Turkish Health Secretary you should be whining to, and not the UK one?
1 comment:
While I wouldn't wish anyone to die through poor medical care, what do we expect to happen? We cannot directly affect medical care in another country, and unless we are prepared to limit peoples' freedom of choice we cannot ban people from seeking healthcare (elective or necessary) elsewhere. Any more than we should decide the make of car they should buy, or who they might vote for in an election.
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