{"id":292011,"date":"2026-01-19T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/292011\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:57:09","slug":"turkish-hospitals-irish-based-company-records-e125000-profit-as-it-promotes-group-trips-for-cosmetic-and-weight-loss-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/292011\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish hospital\u2019s Irish-based company records \u20ac125,000 profit as it promotes group trips for cosmetic and weight-loss surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, 11 Irish people have died after undergoing medical or cosmetic procedures abroad in the last five years. Photo: Stock image\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d3ec3505-c6ee-4fc8-9ab2-39df3452db65.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, 11 Irish people have died after undergoing medical or cosmetic procedures abroad in the last five years. Photo: Stock image\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Turkish hospital that holds roadshow events at Irish hotels and organises group cosmetic surgery trips from Dublin recorded a profit of \u20ac125,000, results for 2024 show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ekol Hospital in Izmir registered a company here, Ekol International Ireland Ltd, in 2021 due to the soaring demand for medical tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, 11 Irish people have died after undergoing medical or cosmetic procedures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[2088,18,135,60,19,17,385],"class_list":{"0":"post-292011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-amy-molloy","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-hse","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115920938205823487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}