A British woman claims her right breast was “slaughtered” after undergoing a “botched” cosmetic surgery procedure in Turkey, leaving her to fight for the rest of her life.
Sarah Platt, 32, spent £14,000 on a tummy tuck, breast implants and three other surgeries through an Antalya cosmetic surgery agency earlier this year.
But the mother-of-four claims she “died” from necrosis in her right breast during the 13-hour operation, and was left amputated with a large infected gash in her stomach. There is.
She claims that after the surgery, brown fluid began to ooze from the wound, so she was rushed into surgery and left awake while surgeons cauterized the infected flesh.
She admitted that she lied to her doctor out of fear that she would not be able to fly home if she did not give him a positive review.
After returning to the UK, she was rushed to hospital after her wound became infected, requiring eight surgeries to save her life.
Sarah before surgery (Sarah Pratt/SWNS) Extra skin after losing #12 (Sarah Pratt/SWNS)
She is currently fundraising to have surgery to repair the damage done to her body and to sue the Turkish surgeon responsible for the surgery.
Sarah, from Llanharan, south Wales, says she now cannot see her own body and has nightmares.
She said, “I’m not the person I used to be.
“I used to be very confident, strong and outgoing, and now I’m scared of everything.
“I can’t even shower because I can’t see my body.
“I have horrible dreams about being drowned in blood and being killed in a hospital.
“I haven’t been outside for seven weeks now. Everything inspires me.
Sarah’s scar after surgery (Sarah Pratt/SWNS)
“If I can stop one person from going through what I went through, that’s all I care about.”
Sarah said her nightmare began when she underwent gastric sleeve surgery to lose weight in September 2021 after steroid treatment for endometriosis left her weighing 24 stone.
But after losing 12 stone, she was left with “unbearable” excess skin, which caused bumps and blisters from rubbing.
After researching various surgeons for 17 months, she booked surgery to remove her tummy tuck in Turkey.
But the operation, booked through an agency in February, was meant to give her a new lease on life, but instead left her body in tatters, she says.
Sarah also received an “arm lift” (Sarah Pratt/SWNS)
Sarah said that due to a surgical error, the tissue in her right breast turned black and necrotic, and 30 percent of her left breast had to be removed.
She also has a “hunched back” due to the excess fat left on her back.
Sarah claims that surgeons removed too much skin from her abdomen, leaving her with a scar so large that she required a skin graft from her leg.
Two months later, the hole is still wide open.
She claims she felt she had to lie about giving the doctor a positive review online for fear that the doctor would not sign her “fit to fly” certificate.
When Sara returned to the UK a month after completing what was supposed to be a two-week trip, she was on death’s door with a highly treatment-resistant infection that likely came from a hospital in Turkey.
She had an antibiotic-resistant infection (Sarah Pratt/SWNS)
She said: “My family lost me. I could have died.
“I trusted the medical company and my doctors with this procedure and my life.
“The doctor said the way he cut my skin was like a jigsaw puzzle and blood couldn’t circulate through it.
“My life is still at risk until the infection heals and the wound closes.”
When she arrived at the hospital in Antalya, southern Turkey, on February 20, Sara said she was rushed to sign documents in Turkish.
Doctors told her they had “sharpened the knives for her” for extensive abdominal plastic surgery that would stretch from her waist to her hips and down to her sternum.
Despite her concerns, her doctor told her that five “plastic” surgeries can all be performed at once: tummy tuck, arm lift, back lift, 360-degree upper body lift, and breast lift with implants. .
After waking up in pain after a 13-hour operation, she was worried about a lump in the center of her breast that “looked like a third breast.”
Sarah said she was then put in a compression suit, but it was too small and too tight and she struggled to breathe.
She said she had been asking to see a doctor for nine days about the pain, suit and lump in her chest.
When he finally agreed to see her, he told her that the wound on her stomach was starting to ooze brown fluid and that she needed immediate corrective surgery.
She was rushed to an examination room rather than an operating room and was told she would be sedated.
Although she was awake, he cut out the flesh of her abdomen, which had begun to die and “necrosis.”
She was no lower than 24th before the gastric sleeve (Sara Platt / SWNS)
He then used a “cautery instrument” to cauterize the wound.
Sarah said: “I was begging him to stop. I felt like I was on fire. I saw him drop the tool on the floor and soak it in something before continuing to use it. I did.”
“I was told to stay still and other staff held me down. The pain was so intense I fainted.”
She begged him to send her home because the wound had turned green and started to suppurate.
Once home, Sarah was too embarrassed and scared to seek help from the NHS.
She instead consulted her GP, who was aware of her weight problems. The doctor gasped as Sarah lifted her upper body.
The next morning she was referred to Morriston Hospital in Swansea for emergency surgery, but the sutures in her stomach had torn the previous evening.
She was found to have a drug-resistant infection and had to be isolated from other members of the hospital and was unable to see her children for several weeks.
She remained in the hospital for another month and endured eight corrective surgeries to save her life.
This included removing most of her breasts and an oversized implant, and reconstructing her stomach, where too much skin had been lost, with a skin graft.
Sarah said: “I haven’t heard from my doctor since I returned to the UK.”
“He shouldn’t have had so many surgeries on me at once.
She is currently fundraising for plastic surgery to raise her arms above her shoulders, eliminate her hunched back and reconstruct her breasts. It could cost up to £28,000.
She is also raising £5,000 to help establish legal action against the surgeon.
A registered disabled mother with endometriosis said: “The doctor said it was okay when my right breast was black.
“Since then, I stopped one of the girls online who was going to have surgery with him.
“If I can stop one person from going through what I went through, that’s all I care about.
“It’s completely changed me as a person. I just want to be with my kids.
“I know there will be some backlash online over this, but I just want to sue the doctor and stop others from doing the same thing.”
After starting treatment at a beauty agency in Turkey, Sara wrote in a message to herself, “The doctor told me that there were no problems with the surgery, no infections, and that I didn’t take time off when I should have after the surgery.” I said,” he said.
However, a letter from the hospital, signed and stamped by a doctor, stated that the surgery “did not go as planned” and that further surgery would be required within six months.
The documents acknowledged that he had “circulatory issues” and “remained fatty tissue in his abdomen and back that needed to be removed.” “Not all excess skin and fat was removed during the surgery…
“The patient’s back needs to be redone because fatty tissue has built up in the middle of her back, causing humpbacks.”
A spokesperson for the department denied Pratt’s claims, insisting that Pratt simply communicated with medical staff through a third party.
A spokesperson said: “We are disappointed to hear that Mrs Platt is blaming us for all our problems, but the truth is very different from what she portrays.
“We obtain all necessary legally required documentation, approvals and consent forms from her and walk her through the entire process before performing the procedure.
“We would also like to inform you that we are just a representative in this matter; we are not a hospital or a doctor in this matter.
“Our organization simply acts as an intermediary between medical institutions and patients.
“Therefore, we are an independent economic entity that is different from doctors and hospitals.
“Our service directs patients to the most qualified medical institutions. All the information you need in this regard is
“Mrs. Platt was informed about the surgery, including information about the surgeon, the hospital, potential side effects, and precautions that had to be taken into account.”
