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Undercover: The Times investigation into Turkish plastic surgery clinics

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The Times

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3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Medical tourism to Turkey for ‘Brazilian butt lifts’ and liposuction is surging despite the risks. 

The UK government says at least 28 people have died since 2019 as a result of medical tourism to the country. 

Our correspondent goes undercover to expose the firms recruiting customers in London.

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Guest: Charlotte Wace, Special Projects Correspondent, The Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana.

Get in touch: TheStory@thetimes.com 

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0:00.0

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of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses

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Terms apply. From the Times and Sunday Times, this is the story.

1:07.0

I'm Manveen Rana. Our intrepid reporters can find themselves in all sorts of awkward spots while chasing a story.

1:24.8

So I've gone undercover, I'm in this small airless room within a Central London office block. It's like this big rented shared

1:35.0

office space.

1:36.0

We don't know if we were in the right place, we can see it.

1:45.0

You told them something.

1:47.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:48.0

There's little to indicate that it's a registered clinical setting.

1:52.0

I'm here for a consultation to have plastic surgery

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