I don’t want other families to suffer because of these ridiculous surgeries
Morgan dad’s warning after Turkey tragedy
THE heartbroken dad of a young woman who died after weight-loss surgery in Turkey wants to make sure no other parents lose a child because of botched operations.
Richard Ribeiro, 44, said his 20-year-old daughter Morgan spent her family trust fund, released to her aged 18, on the £2,500 procedure.
But she never made it home, falling seriously ill on the flight home and dying in Belgrade, Serbia, after emergency efforts to save her failed.
Richard said: “We want to make sure something like this doesn’t ever happen again – that no more children are taken away from their families because of these ridiculous surgeries.
“They do not operate properly and do not follow proper procedures.
“I don’t want any other families to ever suffer like this.”
Morgan had paid a company in Switzerland for the surgery.
Richard said: “She did her due diligence, she checked the success rate of the operations and the reviews, how long the healing process was. She weighed her options up and decided the hospital she chose had a better reputation.
“She contacted me after she had the operation, said it had gone OK and that she was starting the healing process.”
Richard, from South had a WhatsApp voice note from Morgan before she boarded her Wizz Air flight from Istanbul to Gatwick. “That was the last time I heard her voice,” he said. “I haven’t been able to listen to it again. “She had done a lot HORROR STORY The Mirror’s front page of growing up, she was a lovely, mature girl. She was doing what she wanted to do – working as an assistant for children with special needs.
“She cared about people. Now it’s about holding the surgery and the surgeon to account after what has happened to Morgan and the many others who travel for operations.”
Morgan had the operation on January 5 and was given the green light to return home three days later.
But the plane had to make an emerLondon, gency landing in Belgrade after she suffered serious complications.
Hospital medics in Serbia told Morgan’s boyfriend, Jamie Brewster, 19, she was going into septic shock.
Doctors found Morgan’s small intestine had been cut during the gastric sleeve operation. They removed 10cm of her intestine, but she died on January 13.
Mum Erin Gibson, 44, said Serbian doctors told her it was the third time a plane carrying a British cosmetic
surgery patient has had to make an emergency landing in Belgrade.
“The Serbian prosecutor’s office and the British authorities have launched investigations,” she added.
At least 25 Britons are known to have died following medical procedures in Turkey since January 2019. A Government spokesman urged anyone considering a medical procedure abroad to review latest advice.