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Technology genius dies after bariatric surgery
Mother Betül Tigin said they went to Taşkın’s office on Jan. 17 in an attempt to find a solution to Bülent Tigin’s weight problem. The professor told them he would be able to perform a stomach stapling operation. Tigin underwent an operation on Jan. 19 at a private İstanbul hospital, but he began to experience pain following the treatment. On Jan. 22, he was referred to the Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine Hospital but died two days later.
“My son weighed 250 kilograms. He could not get rid of the excess weight. We researched how he could lose weight and decided that the only way out was stomach stapling. Following the operation, he began to suffer from gas but received treatment for this complaint. After the treatment, other tests were conducted, and the doctor said everything was normal. At the end of the third day, I received a call and learned my son had been referred to the Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine Hospital. When I arrived at the hospital, I found out my son’s condition was serious and that Taşkın had left the hospital. When I called him, he hung up the phone saying he was with another patient. He charged 10,000 euros for this operation, but he did not even phone to tell me about my son’s condition. Money does not matter, but a life has been lost,” she said.
Betül Tigin noted that they were denied access to her son’s medical reports when they went to the hospital. “They did not give us the reports as they said they did not know where the doctor had put them. We learned that even though he had the operation at the Private Çengelköy Ülkü Hospital, they reported that my son had undergone the operation at Cerrahpaşa.”
She also said she would start legal proceedings and will also go to the European Court of Human Rights.
Professor Taşkın said they used all means at the hospital to improve Tigin’s health but the special conditions resulting from his weight prevented the treatment. “The patient applied to our clinic with complaints of difficulty walking and sleeping, obesity and liquid oozing from wounds. … He underwent an operation on Jan. 19. His condition was normal for the following two days. He had no problems except for pain due to gas. He underwent another examination but then had sudden chest pain and difficulty breathing. However, he was too large for the medical equipment. Thus, he was taken to a special room at Cerrahpaşa, but it was impossible to use the equipment because of his weight,” he said, adding that they had treated him for respiratory and renal failure but their efforts had been unsuccessful because of the patient’s obesity.
Tigin was buried at an İstanbul cemetery following a funeral service.
Taşkın had previously been involved in another stomach stapling incident concerning radiologist Ziyanur Belül who died in 2000 one week after a stomach stapling operation carried out by Taşkın. Belül’s husband filed a criminal complaint against Taşkın, but Taşkın was found not to be at fault by the Supreme Health Council despite having been found at fault by the Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK).
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