Foreign Affairs recommends maximum caution before medical tourism to Turkey after the death of four Spaniards

MADRID, 11 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation recommends the "maximum precaution" to those who are considering traveling to Turkey to perform some type of cosmetic surgery after the death of four Spaniards in recent months.

This is expressly stated in the travel recommendations regarding this country made by the department headed by José Manuel Albares, updated in February and in force today.

"We are aware that in recent months at least four Spanish citizens have died as a result of undergoing cosmetic surgeries in Turkey, and that a similar number are suffering serious sequelae," Foreign Affairs stresses.

For this reason, they recommend to those who plan to travel to Turkey for a treatment of gastric surgery or hair implants, the most frequent, "the utmost caution and check the level of quality of the center and the doctors chosen" since "the level of hospital facilities and treatment varies significantly within the country itself".

Thus, it is "strongly" advised that before traveling "both the establishments and the doctors who are going to carry out the operation" be carefully analyzed and also asks to take into account that "the agencies that offer this type of service do so out of interest economical, so they have to value them with that very present thought".

Lastly, they report that the Turkish health authorities have a contact email --support.ht@saglik.gov.tr--, attended in English and Turkish, in which they report questions regarding hospitals, treatments, physicians and agencies and to whom any claim or complaint can also be addressed. ?