The Gastric Bandits ; Increasing Numbers of Women Are Going Abroad for Radical Weight- Loss Surgery They Can't Have Here Because They're Not Fat Enough. As This Woman Found, the Results Can Be Disastrous ...

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JILLY TRELA and I first met in a Bristol tea room. The Victoria sponge looked quite tempting and I asked if she . It doesn't go down.' 'What would happen if you did?' I asked.

'I would probably be sick.' Jilly Trela is one of a number of people who are travelling abroad for obesity surgery. At [pounds]3,000, her stomach band operation, which was performed in Belgium, cost half of what it would have done if carried out privately in the UK.

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The Gastric Bandits ; Increasing Numbers of Women Are Going Abroad for Radical Weight- Loss Surgery They Can't Have Here Because They're Not Fat Enough. As This Woman Found, the Results Can Be Disastrous ...

But it wasn't the price that attracted the mother-of-two. Jilly travelled abroad because when she tried to get the operation done here, she was told she couldn't get the operation on the NHS or privately, because she simply wasn't fat enough.

The keyhole operation involves wrapping a plastic band around the stomach. After surgery, a liquid is injected into the band, known as a 'fill', to make it contract tightly around the stomach. This reduces t...

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