Holiday-hungry Brits come to Turkey for hair transplantation and aesthetic surgery without quarantine

One of Britain’s respected newspapers has revealed that holiday-hungry Brits come to Turkey on holiday without the practice of quarantine by having hair transplantation and aesthetic surgery. “Normally, Turkey practices quarantine, but they do not do this practice in aesthetic operations,” the newspaper commented.

Foreign holidays are observed to be on the agenda in the UK which has begun the process of normalization. One of Britain’s most respected newspapers wrote that many Britons come to Turkey both for a holiday and for plastic surgery, so they can take a vacation without the practice of quarantine.

“I started going bald 5 years ago, ” said a 35-year-old lawyer who spoke to the newspaper. “Thanks to the pandemic process, I decided to have a hair transplant in the days when we were closed in houses and went to Istanbul,” he went on to say. According to the newspaper, a large number of Britons have had botox, hair transplants and liposuction performed in Istanbul during the quarantine period.

“THEY ARE NOT QUARANTINED”

Said person went to Turkey with the support of the government, the newspaper said, adding that the British Ministry of Health does not prohibit hair transplants or aesthetic interventions. The news also said, “those who went from the UK to Turkey for operations this year had to comply with Turkey’s mandatory 10-day quarantine”.

Turkey banned direct flights because of the British mutation and it became mandatory for those who went to the UK in the last 10 days to be quarantined. But none of those who came from the UK to have hair transplants were quarantined.

PEOPLE WHO COME FOR AESTHETIC SURGERY ARE HAPPY

“Although the number of cases in Turkey has increased recently, those who come from the United Kingdom for aesthetic surgery are in good spirits” the paper wrote adding that health tourism was of great value to Turkey. The newspaper recalled that one out of every 3 tourists who came to Turkey in 2019 came for medical reasons, resulting in a revenue of about $ 1.2 billion.

The paper said, “the historic city of 7 Hills – meaning Istanbul – is now the capital of hair transplantation. On the main streets are people with blood on their heads and the logo of the bandage of the clinic where they went. Every year, hundreds of people go to Turkey for this reason. In Turkey, this operation costs £ 1,500, while in the UK, for a similar operation, at least £ 8,000 should be discredited. Because of the pandemic in Turkey last year, the revenues of health tourism decreased by almost 50 percent.”