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Hereford & Worcester,3 mins

Hereford woman’s ‘nightmare’ surgery in Turkey

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Chloe Quick is stuck in Turkey, after weight-loss surgery went dramatically wrong, and left her fighting for her life. The Hereford mum works at the County Hospital and travelled to Istanbul for a gastric 'sleeve', a procedure where a private surgeon would shrink her stomach. The botched operation led to major blood loss, a ruptured spleen and a medically induced coma. Medics told her father that Chloe had only a 50-50 chance of survival. The family have since had to spend over £5,000 for emergency treatment as she battles to regain full health. Our reporter Tom Edwards went to see Chloe's best friend, Leah Mattson, in Hereford.

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