Surgeon’s stark warning on weight loss surgery abroad after inquests into deaths of two Cork women

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10 comments

  1. Needs to be more information about the potential downsides of travelling for these procedures.

    Also any treatment by Irish hospitals should be chargeable to the patient if they can afford to go abroad and pay for these. Many of whom are on medical cards.

  5. There was a woman from my area that died during one of those weight loss surgeries recently. The surgery was in Ireland.

  6. People don’t need to be going to Turkey or the likes for this. They can get it done for free in the EU. For some reason this gets rarely mentioned.

    The Treatment abroad scheme (TAS) covers the cost of planned treatment in another country in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom or Switzerland.

    The treatment must be within Irish law and either:

    * not available in Ireland, or
    * not available in the time normally necessary to get it in Ireland – taking into account your health and the likely course of your condition or disease

  7. Anytime I hear people going to Turkey, you know they’re going for some ropey shit. First non eu country that isn’t richer than eu average. Not held to eu standards. They’re paying for risky procedures, that wouldn’t pass the bar in eu. Poor women

  8. One of them got the recommendation from someone who did their eyebrows. I mean come on…

  9. I know a few people who go to Naples to get their dental work done. They say it’s cheaper but I don’t know.

  10. A nurse that I went to college with passed away from one of these surgeries a few weeks ago. The surgery took place in Ireland. Very sad. Surgery is risky, no matter where it happens.

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