Hospital Appeals To People To Consider "Hidden Costs" Of Overseas Cosmetic Surgery

Monday, 21 February 2022 14:48

By Caoimhe Harney

St James' Hospital has treated numerous women for botched surgeries in the last few months.

St James' Hospital in Dublin is appealing to people to consider the "hidden costs" of going overseas for cosmetic surgery.

It's after they treated 8 women the space of 4 months for complications they'd received from botched jobs in Turkey, Lithuania, Romania and Belgium.

4 of these patients presented with problems resulting from buttock surgery while 2 had to have their implants removed.

Consultant Plastic Surgeon at St James' ,Marlese Dempsey, says cheaper operations can become costly if things go wrong:

She describes some of the cases they've dealt with it in the past 4 months:

Communication Officer, BodyWhys Ellen Jennings spoke with Ciara Noble on Monday's Kildare Focus:

Members of the public can get in contact with BodyWhys through the email :alex@bodywhys.ie

Alternatively the phone number is : 01 210 7906

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