A BBC investigation has discovered ladies within the UK, primarily from BAME backgrounds, who travelled to Turkey for beauty surgical procedure, had been left with life threatening situations by an organization which acquired constructive critiques from a social media influencer in return totally free beauty procedures..

YouTuber Renee Donaldson, who has 159,000 subscribers, has apologised to her followers after she promoted Clinichub – which arranges surgical procedure in Istanbul – however didn’t say she was being paid to take action. She minimize the connection after her personal surgical procedure was “botched” and left her with lumps on her thighs.

One other girl advised the BBC a part of her breast tissue has died after her discount surgical procedure went improper.

The BBC has contacted the surgeons and Clinichub’s director, Ibrahim Kuzu, nonetheless it acquired no response.

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