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Two women explain why they travelled to Lithuania to skip a two-year wait for treatment.

The number of patients choosing to go abroad for medical surgery have increased from 152,000 in 2018 to 234,000 in 2021, according to Office for National Statistics data.

Primary school teacher Fiona Hinton had a problem with her gall bladder and had been suffering pain "worse than childbirth" since 2022. In 2021, post-Covid, when people faced restricted travel, some 234,000 people went overseas for medical treatment.Both Mrs Harris and Ms Hinton attended the Nord Clinic in Lithuania.

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