SHOCKING new details have emerged in the tragic case of Beth Martin who died after suddenly falling ill during her dream holiday in Turkey.
The Brit mum, 28, was rushed to a two-star-rated public hospital where she mysteriously died and her heart was allegedly removed.
GoFundMeLuke and Beth Martin had been on a dream holiday to Turkey when tragedy struck on April 27[/caption]
GoFundMeMum Beth from Portsmouth reportedly fell ill on her way to Turkey[/caption]
VentumMarmara University Pendik Training and Research Hospital in Istanbul[/caption]
Ms Martin was wheeled to Marmara University Pendik Training and Research Hospital – a low-rated public hospital built on the outskirts of the Turkish capital.
After scrambling for an ambulance, she was finally admitted to the hospital, which offers Istanbul’s International Patient Service serving foreign patients.
The doctors are understood to have checked her heart by performing an angiogram – a form of X-ray that shows blood vessels.
After doing the checks, the doctors told husband Luke they did not find anything suspicious.
However, Ms Martin was dead by the very next day – leaving Luke to explain the tragedy to their two young children, aged 8 and 5.
Her family claims they were left completely in the dark by Turkish authorities throughout the whole ordeal.
And sickeningly, once they finally got back to the UK with her body, a UK autopsy revealed her heart had been removed – without any prior consent or authorisation.
Marmara Pendik Hospital is now facing a negligence investigation over Ms Martin’s sudden death, according to Ms Marin’s family.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) is also making its own enquiries with local authorities, the Daily Mail reports.
The public hospital has a low rating on Google, averaging just two stars.
One of the Google reviews read: “Terrible experience. No care shown.
“Only emphasis on a fee that I couldn’t pay today, and no other option offered in an emergency situation that will likely affect me the rest of my life.”
Another review said: “So bad on service. May God not let anyone fall into such a disgraceful hospital.”
A website operated by the Istanbul Provincial Directorate of Health states that the hospital’s principles are “transparency and accountability [with] people at the focal point of the fairness of the health service that is excellent”.
The Sun has reached out to the hospital for comment.
Meanwhile, Luke told how he was then shocked when Turkish police initially accused him of poisoning and killing his wife after her shocking death.
She was being treated in intensive care, he said, before adding he was banned from seeing her.
Beth and Luke’s parents flew out the following day and were again kept in the dark.
They were then shocked to discover Beth had been transferred to another hospital overnight, due to “concerns with her heart”, with none of the family members informed.
Close friend Ellie, who travelled to Turkey to try and help, detailed her experience of what happened after Beth’s death.
She revealed that Beth was supposed to be transferred to a private clinic.
The hospital has got low ratings on google
gofundmeBeth pictured with her husband Luke[/caption]
GoFundMeLuke was initially accused of poisoning Beth[/caption]
But the public hospital was slow to act and “stopped her” from doing so.
She told how the doctors were acting strangely.
Ellie explained: “All they went on about is ‘are you going to sue the hospital? Sign this bit of paper’.
“I said: ‘Is there something we should be suing for? Do you know something we don’t? Because that’s really suspicious.’”
The family, who have not been told her cause of death, claim they were also forced to carry Beth in a body bag through the hospital.
She blasted the hospitals, saying: “The insurance company wanted to move her to a private hospital but the public hospital in Istanbul were not cooperating, they were being slow and delaying reports and not sending information over.
“They stopped her.”
She noted how suspicious it was that Beth’s hair was in “perfect” shape despite the mum undergoing “45 minutes of CPR”.
She speculated: “They said they did 45 minutes of CPR but anyone who has ever had CPR or has seen CPR knows how brutal it is.
“When I saw Beth in the morgue after she had her hair in two French plaits and they were perfect.
“There is no way they did CPR for 45 minutes, I know that,” she defiantly stated.
She added that medical reports rules out food poisoning as a cause of death – but they still not confirm how exactly the mum died.
GettyThe family’s nightmare started hours after arriving on holiday in Turkey[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
