Public awareness campaign on risks of accessing weight loss surgery overseas is crucial

  1. Sala Abdalla, consultant general and upper GI surgeon
  1. London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Harrow, UK
  1. salaabdalla{at}nhs.net

Patients need clearer warnings about the risks of having surgery abroad.1 Health tourism in weight loss and aesthetic surgery is happening with accelerating frequency. In the past few months I have had to manage several patients who had bariatric and aesthetic surgery abroad and returned with complications. I hear stories from patients about advertising that lures them to clinics …

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