A woman died after undergoing a stomach operation in Turkey, an inquest heard on Thursday.
Janet Lynne Savage, 54, travelled to the Ozel Rich Hospital in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya to undergo the operation where it can cost between £2,000 and £6,000 to have the slimming procedure.
But tragically, the mother from Bangor, North Wales, never woke up after the surgery on August 6 at 7.45am.
The inquest heard how surgical implements were placed inside Mrs Savage and her aortic artery was ruptured. Her condition deteriorated before she bled to death.
The inquest in Caernarfon, North Wales, was told Mrs Savage was identified by her husband Andrew.
Her body was later repatriated and a post-mortem examination was carried out at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire in Wales.
A pathologist gave her provisional cause of death as “acute blood loss due to an injury to the abdominal aorta (repaired)”.
Assistant North West Wales Coroner Sarah Riley adjourned the hearing to a date to be fixed.
Mrs Savage had been employed by the Driving and Vehicles Standards Agency and was based in Bangor as an examiner. She had passed hundreds of drivers in her eight years as a driving test examiner.
She had been promoted to recruitment ambassador in May. In tribute, Caernarfon Driving School said: “Just heard the sad news that Jan Savage one of our examiners at the Bangor Test centre has passed away. Our thoughts are obviously with her family at this upsetting time.”
Just last month, a mother-of-three also died in a Turkish hospital after flying out for a £2,000 gastric sleeve surgery.
Leanne Leary, 38, suffered two heart attacks and died after undergoing gastric sleeve surgery in Istanbul on July 1.
If successful, the procedure would have seen Ms Leary remove 80 per cent of her stomach.
Ms Leary’s family were told by hospital staff that the 38-year-old had suffered a heart attack but was in a stable condition.
According to reports, her parents flew out to Turkey the following day but upon arrival, were told she had suffered another heart attack that proved fatal.
And in April, 28-year-old Shannon Bowe also tragically died while undergoing gastric band surgery – also in Turkey.
She is understood to have travelled to the Middle Eastern country to undergo the surgery. It is unclear at which medical facility she received the operation or what complications led to her death.
