The surgeon who carried out a £2,500 weight reduction operation on a younger girl who later died has insisted he did nothing mistaken.
Dr Serkan Bayil carried out a gastric band operation on Morgan Ribeiro, 20, on January 5 after she paid for the budget-price process and flew out to Turkey with a view to keep away from a years-long wait for a similar surgical procedure on the NHS.
However, she took in poor health on her flight house and was taken to hospital in Serbia, the place docs informed her household her small gut had been perforated; she suffered a coronary heart assault and was positioned in a coma, dying 4 days later.
Dr Bayil has insisted that she suffered an embolism on her flight, a declare rejected by Ms Ribeiro’s mom Erin Gibson.
The surgeon, who has reportedly been practising for greater than twenty years, claimed he had carried out the process efficiently on two different sufferers from England and that that they had recovered properly.
Dr Serkan Bayil is alleged to have accomplished greater than 8,000 surgical procedures, in accordance with a web based profile selling
Images shared on different web sites present him posing in a white coat. He has denied making any errors in Morgan Ribeiro’s surgical procedure
Morgan Ribeiro flew to Turkey to endure a gastric sleeve operation after struggling years of bullying about her weight. Her boyfriend James Brewster (proper, with Ms Ribeiro) claims hospital employees didn’t point out the hazards related to going below the knife. The hospital has not responded to the claims
The hospital the place Dr Serkan Bayil is reported to have carried out the surgical procedure on Morgan Ribeiro earlier this month
‘She died because of an embolism on the flight, not because of issues from the surgical procedure,’ Dr Bayil stated of Ms Ribeiro’s dying to the Mirror.
He added: ‘I’m unhappy, so, so unhappy, she was so younger I want that this had by no means occurred, it’s the first time in my profession.’
But primarily based on what she was informed by Serbian docs, Ms Ribeiro’s grieving mom, Erin Gibson, believes the physician failed to identify an incision in her small gut which will have allowed meals to slide into her bloodstream, inflicting septic shock.
She stated: ‘This isn’t simply ‘she had an embolism’, she was reduce within the small gut, and I imagine he didn’t choose it up. We had been informed this by the Serbian surgeons.’
A profile of Dr Bayil on-line linked to Global Medical Care, a Swiss medical journey firm, claims he has carried out greater than 8,000 medical procedures.
Multiple on-line profiles state he graduated from Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine in Turkey in 1996, finishing a basic surgical procedure specialisation there between 2003 and 2010.
He usually posts movies of sufferers sharing their pleasure at being operated upon by the surgeon to Instagram; one video was captioned: ‘We perform all our operations in a totally sterile and hospital setting.’
Ms Ribeiro paid £2,500 from a belief fund arrange by her dad and mom to go below the knife after being bullied for years about her weight.
A last TikTok video posted earlier than she flew overseas was hauntingly captioned: ‘My final publish earlier than WLS (weight reduction surgical procedure)…see you on the opposite aspect.’
Her father, Richard Ribeiro, stated she had carried out analysis on-line earlier than deciding to pay an organization in Switzerland and flying to Turkey.
But he revealed that her last heartbreaking message to him was a WhatsApp voice notice simply earlier than she boarded a Wizz Air flight again to Gatwick, after telling him she felt ‘OK and that she was beginning the therapeutic course of’.
He stated: ‘We need to be certain that one thing like this doesn’t ever occur once more. That no extra kids are taken away from their households due to these ridiculous surgical procedures, the place they don’t function correctly and don’t observe correct procedures.’
Earlier this week, Ms Ribeiro’s mom Erin Gibson informed MailOnline she had turn into estranged from her ‘head-strong’ daughter within the months earlier than the operation earlier this month.
She stated: ‘She was within the cut price worth. The clinic solely highlights the successes, not the failures. If I had had recognized I’d have proven her dangers.
‘I solely came upon she was having the operation on the day she flew out and by then it was too late.’
Mrs Gibson says she would have proven her daughter the dangers if she had recognized what she was going to do
Serbian surgeons eliminated over 10cm of Morgan’s small gut in a bid to include the an infection Morgan suffered a coronary heart assault on January 9 and died 4 days later
In a final publish on TikTok previous to her operation, Morgan informed her associates she’d ‘see them on the opposite aspect’
Serbian prosecutors, along with the British authorities, have launched investigations into Morgan’s dying after she took in poor health on her flight house, going into septic shock.
The Wizz Air flight was pressured to make an emergency touchdown in Belgrade, the place surgeons eliminated over 10cm of her small gut in a bid to avoid wasting her.
Her older sister, Kayleigh, 26, had begged her to not undergo with the operation whereas boyfriend Jamie Brewster claimed the hospital had not made the dangers related to the surgical procedure clear earlier than she went below the knife.
MailOnline has contacted the hospital for remark.
Ms Gibson added: ‘The Serbian docs and authorities have been nice. They informed me that is the third time a airplane carrying a British beauty surgical procedure affected person has needed to make an emergency touchdown in Belgrade due to medical issues.
‘The Serbian prosecutor’s workplace and the British authorities have launched investigations into Morgan’s dying. I hope it does not occur to a different woman, to a different girl’s daughter.’
A authorities spokesman stated: ‘We are supporting the household of a British girl who died in Belgrade and are involved with the native authorities.
‘We urge anybody contemplating a medical process overseas to evaluation our journey recommendation and the related steerage from the NHS and different skilled our bodies.’
Mr Brewster informed the Independent that she didn’t need to wait years to have the surgical procedure on the NHS.
But she is one among a rising variety of individuals to die after travelling overseas to endure surgical procedures for a lot lower than they’d value within the UK; personal British gastric band surgical procedure is assumed to value within the area of £10,000.
Last 12 months the Government stated it’s conscious of greater than 25 British nationals who’ve died in Turkey since January 2019 after surgical procedures.
Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) recommendation warns individuals to watch out if they’re contemplating ‘medical tourism’ journeys.
It reads: ‘Do your personal analysis – personal corporations have a monetary curiosity in arranging your medical remedy overseas and the data they supply shouldn’t be your solely supply of data.’
But Turkey has responded furiously to claims that it’s finishing up unsafe medical procedures on Brits.
Last 12 months, the Turkish embassy in London stated in a riposte to the FCDO recommendation: ‘Healthcare providers in Turkey are offered by authorised establishments and surgeons in accordance with worldwide requirements.
‘These establishments are usually audited by the Turkish authorities to make sure that they meet the best requirements of high quality and security.’