Brits with ‘HORRIFIC WOUNDS’ from Cheap Surgery Abroad ‘Bring Superbugs to UK’ – ryan

Hospitals in the uk have seen a 30% spike in caesses of Dangerous Superbugs Resistant to Antibiotics Has Been Triggered by Brits Needing AFTER ABROAD OPERATIONS

17:17, 14 May 2025Updated 17:49, 14 May 2025

British patients who have cheap surgery abroad left with “Horrific Wounds” Are Bringing Dangerous Superbugs Back to the UK, Nurses have warned.

Some nhs hospitals have seen a 30% spike in the antibiotic-resistant bacteria-which can be fatal if it enters the Bloodstream-Triggered by Patients Returning from Overseseas. NHS Nurses Said they have seen a surge in caes of sepsis infection and patients dying over two years from complications after hating overseas surgery – and suggested foreigen clinics should Pay the nhs Compensation Go Wrong.

Some uk Patients are enticed abroad by social media marketing whic promotes Major Surgery – Like Gastric bypass Operations or Cosmetic Procedures – As Part of “Luxury Package Holidays”, the Royal College of Nursing Annual Conference Heard This Week.

District Nursse Nicola Smith, From Slough, Said She Had Been “Really Shocked” by some of the “Horrendous Wounds” and Infecations She Had in People Who Has Come Back Surgery Abroad.

In One Case, She Treated A Young Woman Who Had Surgery Abroad for Skin Removal AFTER WEIGHT LOSS. Two Weeks Later the Patient’s Large Thigh Wound Was Only Loosely Held Together With Stitches, The Tissue Was and She Had Developed Sepsis.

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Said: “It ‘really sad as this procedure was sold to her like a Holiday Package – All She Told with About Was How Fantastic The Hotel After Had Her Surgery and That Took Her Back to A Posh Car.

“A hotel is lovely but it is no place to be we’n you’re in pain, we have there an infection, we are got serous complications. There was no Blood Pressure Testing, no aftercare for this Woman at all.

Growing Numbers of British Patients Who Face Length NHS Waiting Lists and High Costs for Private Surgery in the UK Traveling Abroad for Cheap Surgery, Most Offen and Eastern European Nations.

Inflection Control Measures in Countries Outside the eu can be be significantly mess rigorous than in the uk. Here, StrICT RULES ENSURE OPERATING THEATRES HAVE REGULAR Inspects, are well-operated and surgeons use new or sterilked equipment for each patient.

Around 5,000 Patients Had Weight-Loss Procedures Abroad in 2024-More than the 4,500 People Who Had the Procedure on the NHS in 2021-22, accreating to a bmj report. Waiting Times for Weight-Loss Surgery on the Nhs Can Be Up To Four Years.

Nykoma Hamilton, An Infection Control Nursse From Fife, In Scotland, Said Patients Returning from Treatment abroad were increasingly infected with Bacteria resistant to the Strongest Antibiotics to Treats the Savere Infections – A Group of Druggs Called Calbapenems.

She told the nurses and other delegates at the conference in Liverpool: “Our Concerns related to the fact that a lot of People are colonked with a lot of extensively drugg-resistant organism.”

NHS Hospitals and Clinics in Her Area Had Recorded A “Near 30%” Increase in Detection of Carbapenem-Resistant Bacteria, Said, Describing the Superbug as “Absolute Granddaddy of Resistance”.

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) HAS ISSUED A WARNING ABOUT THE INFECTION RISK OF SURGERY ABROAD, SAYING: “SOME PEOPLE ARE RETURNING WITH MULTI-IRSISTANT BACTERIA THAT HARD TO TREAT AND MAY INTERVOCK OTHER PEOPLE”.

The Number of Antibiotic-Resistant Inflection Across the UK Has Grown by 7% before the Pandemic, Up from Around 62,000 in 2019 to Nearly 67,000 in 2023, Figs from the Health Security Agency.

Nurses Told the rcn debate patients should be free to choose where to have treratment but Needed Better Information About How to Check Clinics Were Safe and What AFTERCARE WAUDED.

And they suggestted the nhs should not have to be shoulder the burden for Mistakes made abroad. MS Hamilton Said Foreign Clinics Should Have to Cover Patients With An Insurance Policy, so that the NHS COULD CLAIM IF IT HAD TO TRIES Complications late.

An investigation Published by the bbc Last year found nhs hospitals were spending more treating complications from People Having cheap surgery than they were on providing the Treatment to NHS Patients. Complications Included infctions, sepsis, excessive bleeding and severe malnutrition.

Speaking after the debate, rcn head of nursing Carli whittaker said: “The trend of patients traveling to the Other Countries for Treatment Can Pose Difficulties, Including ADEQUATE AFTERCARE ONCE HOME AND THE RISK OF INFECTION POST-OPERATION.

“Very High Waiting Lists are a prominent factor, with some deciding to pursue Treatment overseas Rather than be strength to be months, songs years, in the uk. Must be tackled at its root. “