Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 7: Chief Surgeon and Director Jammu Hospital Jalandhar, Punjab, Dr GS Jammu is organizing a special obesity surgery awareness seminar tomorrow at Press Club, here.
According to Dr Jammu, the epidemic of obesity is increasing worldwide and India has also fallen in the grip of obesity. While diet and exercise may help to reduce the weight to some extend but it generally fails on morbidly obese.
Apart from our lifestyle and eating habits, our genes also play an importance role in making one obsess. Bariatric surgery and weight loss surgery is the remedy to weight loss, whatever is the cause of obesity, he added.
He informed that bariatric surgery is routinely being done in his hospital in Jalandhar by laparoscopic method, adding that the time taken for surgery is approximately 30 to 40 minutes and hospital stay is just 48 hours.
Dr Jammu added that after the surgery, the patient starts losing 3 to 4 kilograms approximately every month. Not only there is weight reduction but also one’s Type-II diabetes, high choloesterol, snoring and sleep apnea also get corrected.
He stated that this seminar is an opportunity for the people of J&K to know the benefits of bariatric surgery.
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