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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - plastic surgery]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Hundreds of emergency room visits a year for cosmetic surgeries abroad: "They almost killed me"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/society/hundreds-of-emergency-room-visits-year-for-cosmetic-surgeries-abroad-they-almost-killed_130_5591067.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/c9225b52-553b-4c0a-9d85-ef8d7af905c1_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0_x3162y3480.jpg" /></p><p>Flights, a stay in a five-star hotel, and surgery for €2,500. Deals <em>low cost</em> These kinds of posts flood TikTok and Instagram, accompanied by photos of seemingly satisfied patients who have achieved a flat stomach or firm, voluminous buttocks and breasts in private clinics in Turkey, Brazil, and Colombia. Low-cost cosmetic tourism is booming, primarily targeting women between 18 and 40 who want cosmetic surgery but don't want to or can't afford it in Catalonia—where prices are two to six times higher—or who are lured by aggressive marketing campaigns from doctors in what appear to be circus-like settings. But this business often comes at too high a price: the cost to one's health.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gemma Garrido Granger]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:01:10 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[It is estimated that 25 million people worldwide travel abroad for surgery, and a third of these are for cosmetic procedures.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Surgeons warn of an increase in patients treated for 'low cost' operations performed in clinics in Türkiye and Latin America]]></subtitle>
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