She reduced her stomach to lose weight, the 46-year-old woman passed away

2023-03-25 14:26:04Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

She reduced her stomach to lose weight, the 46-year-old woman passed away

Turkish police arrested two doctors on Friday on charges of murdering a 46-year-old woman from Turkmenistan.

The woman had gone to the Turkish clinic to undergo an operation to reduce the stomach in order to lose weight.

The deceased, identified as Aylar Korhanova, is one of dozens of patients who deteriorated after undergoing similar operations at the clinic in Istanbul, foreign media reported.

Korhanova underwent surgery on February 25 and left the hospital after the intervention.

On March 4, she did not feel well and was hospitalized again. Her condition worsened and she was transferred to the intensive care unit and later passed away.

The relatives of the deceased have denounced the doctors who performed the operation and the hospital management. Korhanova's body is still at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Istanbul for an autopsy.

Two doctors were arrested on the charge of "manslaughter". The court decided that they should be investigated in a free state until the end of the investigations.

The two doctors had already been detained days before at the beginning of the investigation due to side effects on patients, but were immediately released.

The European Center for Disease Control (ECDC) estimates 67 similar cases related to intragastric injection of botulinum neurotoxin, of which 53 were recorded in Turkey, 12 in Germany, 1 in Austria and 1 in Switzerland. Of the majority of cases, 60 are linked to a private clinic in Istanbul and three to another in Izmir.

The patients' symptoms were double vision, high blood pressure and vomiting.


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