Heavy, she reduced her stomach to lose weight, the 20-year-old dies a few days after the operation (VIDEO)

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Heavy, she reduced her stomach to lose weight, the 20-year-old dies a few days

A Turkish surgeon will face justice after performing gastric bypass surgery on a 20-year-old British woman who died days later.

20-year-old Morgan Ribeiro, with the savings made by her parents, had managed to collect the sum of 2,500 pounds, to travel to Turkey and undergo the operation that would help her lose weight.

Turkish doctor Serkan Bagil performed the operation on January 5.

As her family said, the unfortunate girl chose Turkey because it was a more economical solution compared to Britain, where she had to wait a long time and also pay 10,000 pounds.

The operation was done and Morgan took the flight back. However, inside the plane she felt very ill.

Her condition was so bad that the Wizz Air flight had to make an emergency landing in Belgrade, where surgeons removed more than 10cm of her small intestine in an attempt to save her.

Doctors told the family that his small intestine was cut during the operation. The girl suffered a heart attack, fell into a coma and died four days later of septic shock.

The Turkish surgeon, who is said to have been practicing for more than two decades, claimed he had successfully operated on two other British patients and that they had recovered well.

“She died of an in-flight embolism, not complications from surgery. I'm sad, very sad, she was so young that I wish this had never happened, it's the first time in my career," Bagil told the Mirror.

The girl's mother said in shock: "It's not just 'he had an embolism', his small intestine was cut and I believe he didn't spot it." This is what the Serbian surgeons told us."

Bagil's online biography says he has performed more than 8,000 medical procedures.

Other online profiles say he graduated from Çukurova University School of Medicine in Turkey in 1996, where he completed his residency in general surgery between 2003 and 2010.

He regularly publishes videos on his Instagram account of patients sharing their joy about the operation.

Bagil writes that in the clinic "we perform all operations in a completely sterile and hospital environment".

Ribeiro paid £2,500 to have the operation, after years of being asked to lose weight.

In a recent video she uploaded to TikTok, before flying out for surgery, she expressed her excitement:

"My last post before WLS (weight loss surgery)...see you on the other side".

It is worth noting that a similar operation in Great Britain costs about 10,000 pounds and therefore many prefer Turkey, which is very economical.

But the British government is sounding the alarm, saying it knows of more than 25 British nationals who have died in Turkey since January 2019 in operations.


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