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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tobi Thomas

UK coroner warns of cosmetic surgery abroad after woman dies in Turkey

Melissa Kerr
Melissa Kerr died in an Istanbul hospital after injected fat blocked her pulmonary artery. Photograph: Facebook

A woman who died after travelling to Turkey for buttock enlargement surgery was not given enough information to make a safe decision about the procedure, a coroner has concluded.

Melissa Kerr, 31, from Gorleston in Norfolk, travelled to the private Medicana Haznedar hospital in Istanbul for the procedure in 2019.

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