A driving examiner who went to Turkey for a weight-loss operation bled to death after the surgery went wrong, an inquest has heard.
Mother-of-two Janet Lynne Savage, 54, from Bangor in Gwynedd suffered damage to one of her main arteries during the procedure, going into cardiac arrest.
Despite the efforts of emergency teams at the hospital in Antalya she died in the intensive care unit on 6 August, 2023.
The hearing in Caernarfon recorded a narrative conclusion, finding she died due to acute blood loss during gastric sleeve surgery.
The inquest was told Mrs Savage had contacted a health travel firm called Regenesis Health Travel at the start of July 2023, and within 24 hours had signed up for surgery a month later in Turkey.
She told the health tourism firm that she had already been taking the drug Ozempic to lose weight, but no longer had access to it, and was concerned she was rapidly gaining weight.
She said she wanted to lose three stone (19kg), and told Regenesis Health Travel that her body mass index (BMI) was 30.7.
According to the NHS, the index measures what is a healthy weight for your height, and would have put Mrs Savage at the very start of the obese range, which runs from 30 to 39.9.
SOURCE: bbc.com