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A British woman claims she was “slaughtered”, lost her right breast and will fight for the rest of her life after undergoing “botched” cosmetic surgery in Turkey.
Sarah Platt, 32, shelled out £14,000 for 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 and she was rushed into surgery, leaving her awake while surgeons burned away 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 with an infected wound, requiring eight surgeries to save her life.
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 Llanharran in south Wales, says she can no longer see her body and has started having nightmares.
She said: “I’m not the person I used to be.
“I used to be very confident, strong and outgoing. Now I’m scared of everything.
“I can’t even take a 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.
“If I can stop one person from going through what I went through, that’s all I care about.”
Sarah says her nightmare began in September 2021 when she gained 24 stone from steroid treatment for endometriosis and had a gastric sleeve fitted to lose weight.
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 her tummy tuck removal surgery in Turkey.
However, the surgery she booked through an agency in February was supposed to give her a new life, but instead left her with a brutally murdered body.
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.
There is also a “slouching” effect caused by excess fat left on the back.
Sarah claims surgeons removed too much skin from her stomach, leaving her with a gaping wound that required a skin graft on her leg.
Two months later, the hole is still gaping.
She claims 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 said: “My family lost me. I could have died.
“I trusted the medical company and my doctors with this procedure and my life.
“The doctors said the way they cut into my skin was like a jigsaw puzzle and there was no blood circulating to my skin.
“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 that the lump in her stomach, which had spread from her lower back to her sternum, had “sharpened the knife for her.”
Despite her concerns, doctors can perform five “tuck” surgeries all at once: a tummy tuck, arm lift, back lift, 360-degree upper body lift, and breast lift with implants. He said he could.
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 asked to see a doctor for nine days for chest pain, a suit, and a lump.
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.
I was told they would rush her to the infirmary rather than the operating room and give her a sedative.
Although she was awake, he cut out the flesh of her abdomen, which had begun to die and “necrosis.”
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, dip it in something, and then keep using it.
“He told me to stay still and other staff members held me down. I passed out from the pain.”
She begged him to take her home as the wound turned green and suppurated.
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.
She was referred to Morriston Hospital in Swansea for emergency surgery the next morning, but the sutures in her stomach had torn the evening before.
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 spent another month in the hospital and endured eight corrective surgeries to save her life.
This included removing most of her breasts and an oversized implant, and using skin grafts to reconstruct her stomach, where there was too much skin loss.
Sarah said: ‘I haven’t heard from my doctor since I came back to the UK.
“He shouldn’t have done all these 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 the case against the surgeon.
A registered disabled mother with endometriosis said: She said: “The doctor said it’s fine when my right breast is black.
“Since then, I stopped a girl 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 completely changed me as a person. I just want to be with my kids.
“I understand the backlash this story will cause online. I just want to sue the doctor and stop him from doing this to others.”
After starting treatment at a Turkish beauty agency, Sarah sent her a message saying, “The doctor assured me that there were no problems with the surgery, no infections, and that I did not 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 he would need further surgery within six months.
The document acknowledged that there were “circulatory issues” and that “fatty tissue remained in the stomach and back that needed to be removed.”During the surgery, not all excess skin and fat was removed. do not have…”
“The patient’s back needs to be redone because fatty tissue has built up in the middle of her back, causing humpbacks.”
A spokeswoman for the agency denied Pratt’s claims, saying she had only come into contact 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 will receive all necessary legally required documents, approvals and consent forms from her and will walk her through the entire process before proceeding.
“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 is simply 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 provider. All the information you need on this subject can be found at
“Mrs. Platt will be informed about the surgery, including information about the doctor performing the procedure, the hospital, potential side effects, and precautions to consider.”
