– Dr.Balamurugan, Bariatric Surgeon, PSG Hospitals
When a person gains more weight than his Body Mass Index level, there are very high chances for his metabolism rate to turn abnormal. This abnormality causes increased blood sugar level, blood pressure, food craving and sleep apnea among other ailments.
If a person’s weight is 30 to 40 kgs more than his BMI, it becomes a disease. If they are exceeding 10 to 20 kgs than their BMI, then using dietary measures, exercises it could be brought to control. But if it is more than this level, then it requires bariatric surgery to help the patient and also prevent other health related complications from happening.
If a person is suffering from diabetes due to obesity, then with the help of Bariatric and Metabolic surgery, that could be cured 100%. They would not require medicine or insulin lifelong. Similarly sleep apnea, fatty liver condition could also be cured using this surgery. It is a curative procedure.
Since 2004 this surgery was started at PSG Hospitals. I have been here since 2011. If you take the recent 20 surgeries done by us between December 2019 to the present, (October 2020), all of them are enjoying a good quality of life.
At PSG Hospitals, our approach to patients is different. We make them comfortable and convey to them that their obesity could be cured and give confidence. We take time to listen to their daily activities, then prescribe the weight management solutions. Compared with any other hospital in the country, ours offer the service at a 30% lesser fee for all to benefit.