Obesity, considered to be one of the serious public health problems of the modern age slashes the health of an individual in multiple ways. Obesity has been linked to increased risk of cancer, impotency, arthritis, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes. Paradigm shift in food habits (increased intake of processed sugars) and increase in sedentary lifestyle across the globe being the major culprit.

Bariatric surgery comes to the rescue of a severely obese individual when alternatives like dieting, exercising and other weight-loss programmes show no significant reduction in extra weight. Given the data available, bariatric surgery is now widely prescribed by doctors all over the world as a preferred option to achieve weight loss. Ozone Hospitals has specialists skilled in various bariatric surgical procedures who have alleviated the pain and discomfort of numerous obese patients through successful surgeries.

Bariatric surgery is broadly classified into the following types.

• Restrictive
• Malabsorptive
• Mixed

The department of Bariatric Surgery in Ozone Hospitals performs the following surgeries to accomplish significant weight-reduction that lasts long

• Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding
• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy
• Gastric Bypass
• Intragastric balloon
• Gastric plication
• Biliopancreatic diversion
• Jejunoileal bypass