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Patients are going abroad for extreme, expensive operations. This is according to research by NOS Stories and Nieuwsuur.
via social media, patients point each other to opportunities in other countries.
In recent years, dozens of Dutch patients have ended up with a vascular surgeon in Malaga, Spain. He operated on some of them for a condition that Dutch doctors say they do not have.
The professional associations of gastrointestinal-liver doctors, pediatricians, and vascular surgeons warn of the consequences of these invasive operations, such as the dying off of a piece of intestine or infections in the bloodstream. Upon their return, several patients have been treated in Dutch hospitals for their complications.
In the Netherlands unthinkable
These are patients who say they cannot eat due to nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. They are frequently enough dependent on a feeding tube to avoid further weight loss. Many of these women attribute their complaints to two rare conditions: gastroparesis (stomach paralysis) and vascular compression syndromes (narrowing of veins and blood vessels).
In the Netherlands, they do not always feel taken seriously by doctors becuase, for example, they are told that the complaints are “in their heads.” They sometimes go from hospital to hospital to get a diagnosis. Eventually, they turn to commercial doctors in Germany, slovakia, or Spain.
“We know that people have been operated on in Spain for the syndrome that we have shown did not exist or that the pattern of complaints did not fit at all,” says Professor of Vascular Surgery Bob Geelkerken on behalf of the professional association.
Among others, Spanish vascular surgeon Alejandro Rodriguez Morata operates on these patients in his commercial practice. He uses, among other things, the r
‘Als het niet helpt, heb ik in ieder geval alles geprobeerd’
For research, treatment, and accommodation, patients in Malaga pay between 30,000 and 120,000 euros. They often raise this money through crowdfunding. The patient association, founded by singer Emma Kok, also contributes to these operations. Patients from the Netherlands represent the largest group of international patients at Morata’s practice. He reports receiving two requests from the Netherlands each week, but due to time constraints, he cannot fulfill them all.
“these are major operations with irreversible changes, and that is why I actively discourage people from pursuing them,” says Professor Daniel Keszthelyi on behalf of gastroenterologists. “I do not think it is indeed right to capitalize on the desperation of patients through an operation,” says Professor Geelkerken.
