BOTCHED TOURIST OPS COST NHS £5M

Taxpayers foot bill when cheap plastic surgery goes wrong

- SASKIA ROWLANDS

BARGAIN hunters going abroad for cheap plastic surgery have cost the NHS nearly £5million to fix botched jobs in the past three years.

Taxpayers footed a bill of roughly £15,000 a pop to correct 324 bungled operations, according to a survey by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.

Patients returning from surgery in health tourism hotspots like Turkey report horrifying complications - from wounds that will not heal to life-threatening sepsis.

One mum of two told how she felt on the brink of death after a bargain boob job.