A woman who died a week after weight-loss surgery in Budget Turkey was asked by her family not to go, but “believed it wouldn’t happen to me.”
Khelisyah Ashamu booked a £3,000 trip to Turkey to undergo post-pregnancy weight loss surgery, but an inquest revealed she had been declared brain dead three days later.
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Reading about a patient who died after surgery, Toynin, a 26-year-old mother, begged her daughter not to risk “bleeding, pulmonary embolism, and anesthetic complications.”
An investigation into an IT worker’s death revealed complications after his surgical plan changed at the last minute from a gastric sleeve to a complex bypass.
“We tried to dissuade her from going. I found an article about someone else who went to Turkey and died, so I sent it to her.
“But the person was in his mid-40s, so I believed it wouldn’t happen to me.”
The court heard she went into cardiac arrest 30 minutes after her second surgery and was placed in an induced coma, but sadly passed away a week later.
Oyebanji, Khelisyah’s father, said, “They trivialize it and make it look like a minor operation.
“Then they told her she could go to the beach. I was against her having the surgery. Her baby was not even a year old.
“I asked her to take care of my son. I wasn’t comfortable at all. She told me not to worry and all her friends would go.”
“All her friends came back, but she was the only one who didn’t.”
Following the inquest, the grieving parents released the following statement:
“She was a wonderful young woman with a great career, a young son, and everything to live for. Three years later, she still never walks through the door or the son she loved so much is his.” It’s hard to accept that I never got the chance to know my wonderful mother.
“Our grandson is a living memory of his mother, which brings us great comfort, but when his mother left, he was only 11 months old and never came back, so it was hard to imagine him being his mother. Not remembering is devastating.
“We have to tell him how much his mother loved him. She was so proud to see how he changed from a little baby to a fine boy.” You would think
“Having an inquest was horrible, but it was necessary to investigate what happened. We are working with our attorneys to try to find out the truth about how our beautiful daughter died.” .
“I can’t help but wonder how things could have been so different. I can only hope other people think twice before booking surgery abroad.”
Khelisyah was not the first victim of weight loss deaths in Turkey. Joe Thornley died in 2020 after a budget sleeve gastrectomy.
The 25-year-old mother, who spent £3,000 on the surgery, warns others: “It’s not worth it. I don’t want other family members to go through what we went through.”
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