Bariatric surgery in India
While obesity is continuing to be one of the biggest health concerns across the globe with more than 500 million people suffering from obesity and another few hundred from overweight syndromes, bariatric surgery or surgical procedure to lose the extra fat deposit from the body is increasingly becoming popular as fastest remedy to the disease. The majority of obese and overweight population is from the west and weight loss surgery or other cosmetic surgeries in most of the western countries are not covered by medical insurance and naturally these surgeries are much costlier than as it is in developing yet medically advanced countries like India. Constellation of many of the world’s finest healthcare facilities as well as affordable medical treatment has made India a preferred destination for bariatric surgery.
Why Bariatric surgery?
Though lifestyle management to cure obesity or overweight syndromes naturally is the most organic way to address the problem, for people with extremely high BMI (Body Mass Index) and excessive stomach fat dieting and exercise often does not seem enough to provide an imminent cure. Moreover, in our fast paced and hectic life we cannot comply always with the healthy lifestyle habits and in that regard bariatric surgery coupled with a few easily manageable dieting and other lifestyle habits can produce fast and sustainable freedom from obesity. You might have undertaken a strict dieting and routine exercise several times in your life only to stop all of a sudden just because of sudden work stress, certain immediacies of family or personal life, etc. and consequently instead of decreasing weight you continued to gain weight over the years. In such cases Bariatric surgery can come to your aid, but obviously you cannot be free from keeping an eye to further weight gain. Considering all in all, bariatric surgery is not a shortcut to reducing weight as it is proclaimed by many, but rather it should be seen as an accelerated step towards losing weight which leaves the baton to lifestyle adjustments as soon as the surgery is over.
Bariatric surgery in India: State of the Art healthcare at affordable cost
Cost advantage and lucrative healthcare pricing is not the only factor that has made India a preferred destination for bariatric surgery, it is primarily the qualitative attributes of our healthcare and surgical facilities and the professional skills and experience of medical staff and surgeons that count. India being also one of the countries with a vast obesity affected population offers state of the art facilities of weight loss surgery across the nation. Moreover, domestic surgery in recent times became almost a fad among affluent urban youth and middle class thanks to easy and affordable access to world class surgical facilities and this recent domestic popularity of bariatric surgery made this surgery more accessible and affordable. In India there are surgeons who perform more than 250 bariatric surgeries in a year indicative of the surgical experience and professional competence.
Healthcare cost is the most important advantage that Indian facilities offer when compared to their western counterparts. As per most of the estimates a bariatric surgery in India is at least 3 to 5 times cheaper than most of the western nations including Canada, US, UK, Australia and many others. The number of medical tourists from overseas countries increased more than 50 times since barely a decade and a majority of these overseas patients come in India particularly for cosmetic and bariatric surgeries to avail state of the art healthcare and clinical excellence at a price that gives them 65% to 90% savings which is highest as compared to the cost advantage in other popular medical tourism destinations.
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