BOTCHED BRITAIN NHS left to pick up £30MILLION bill from Brits’ botched foreign plastic surgery

BRITS going abroad for cut price nip and tucks have cost the NHS £30million over the past five years when UK docs have to correct foreign foul ups.

Many patients are left permanently disfigured by sloppy surgeons they have frequently do not even met until the day they go under the knife.

More than 1,000 women a year arrive home with issues ranging from holes in their skin to wounds that will not heal.

Four out of five UK surgeons are now dealing with more corrective cases than ever, with some saying it accounts for 40% of their work. Corrective procedures here cost up to £6,000 a time.

Turkey is the worst place for botched operations on Brits chasing their ideal look, the Mirror reports.

One surgeon in Marmaris has been the subject of from a string of complaints after his procedures caused his patients physical and mental damage.

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Turkey has proved the most popular destination for Brits in the market for cut price nip and tucks

Dr Mehmet Kaya ­operates from a room above a supermarket and at the local hospital.

One of his patients Julie Lambert, from Selston, Notts, paid him £4,000 for eye surgery, breast augmentation and a neck lift.

It would have cost her £20,000 in the UK.

But the 60-year-old nurse said she “feels like a fool” after being left with a wound that kept opening and deformed ear lobes.

Julie said: “Every aspect of this procedure has left me physically and emotionally scarred. I now have to cover my neck as I have a two-inch hard lumpy scar.

"I am embarrassed as a nurse that I was ­manipulated by these people and trusted them.”

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A doctor said: “This is costing the NHS around £6million a year that could be spent on more doctors or nurses.”

Jean Nuttall, 60, of ­Chesterfield, Derbys, had eyelift surgery and fat transfers to her face carried out by Dr Kaya for £1,200 that would have set her back £7,000 in the UK.

She said she has been left ­with one eye bigger than the other and the fat moved to her face vanished two months later.

Another lady in her 70s said she was left so scarred after having arm lift surgery she no longer wears short sleeved tops.

British plastic surgeon Saif Ramman warned patients to be wary of cut-price operations abroad as often those carrying them out are not experienced.

The senior specialist registrar at St George’s Hospital in South London said: “This is costing the NHS around £6million a year that could be spent on more doctors or nurses.”