46-year-old dying to reduce weight loss stomachs, Turkish doctors arrested

The woman had gone to the Turkish clinic to undergo surgery to reduce her stomach with a view to losing weight.

The late, identified as Aylar Korhanova, is one of dozens of patients who deteriorated after undergoing similar operations at the clinic in Istanbul, foreign media reports.

Korhanova underwent surgery on February 25th and left the hospital after conducting the intervention.

On March 4, she did not feel well and was hospitalized again. Her condition deteriorated by moving to the intensive therapy response and then changing her life.

The deceased's family have denounced doctors who have performed the operation and hospital management. Korhanova's body is still at the Istanbul Law Medicine Institute for performing autopsy.

Two doctors were arrested on charges of <x0-killing by carelessness”. The court ruled that they be investigated in a free state until the investigation is complete.

The two doctors had already been detained days earlier at the beginning of the investigation due to side effects on patients, but were immediately released.

The European Center for Disease Control (ECDC) estimates 67 similar cases related to the intragastric injection of botulinium neurotoxin, of which 53 are registered in Turkey, 12 in Germany, 1 in Austria and 1 in Switzerland. Of most cases, 60 are linked to a private clinic in Istanbul and three to one in Izmir.

Patient symptoms were double eyesight, high blood pressure, and vomiting.