MADRID, 1 ( EUROPA PRESS)
Group study for the treatment of severe ( GESTURES) obesity has explained this Thursday through one of its members and President of the International Federation for The surgery of obesity and Metabolic diseases, Professor Antonio Torres, that they are not “afraid” to cuts in interventions of Bariatric Surgery because it would be “a bad approach to any administration”.
A here, the surgeon of the unity of morbid obesity of the University Hospital of Getafe (Madrid), Dr. Juan Carlos Ruiz of Adana, has pointed out the profitability of this surgery by stating that “it is efficient because these people are leaving hospitals”. In addition, has been concerned because “there are not sufficient resources to meet demand”.
GESTURES, which is a working group which fights to curb obesity, met in Madrid on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the first bariatric procedure carried out in Spain. The author of it was the surgeon Aniceto Baltasar, who made it in the Hospital our Lady of the lilies of Alcoy (Alicante). However, the specialist has recognized that it was only “the first who published”, but that there had been two previous interventions “in a hospital in Barcelona and elsewhere Zaragoza”.
The expert also wanted noted, in reference to possible cuts in this area, “we should encourage the system to see surgery Bariatric will produce savings”. Torres agrees with the surgeon, considering that “the overhead for the system is brutal”.
Therefore, Professor discards to be to produce budget decreases and says that it is better to operate longer, because “today the treatment costs 5,000 euros, but tomorrow will cost 5,200”. In addition, reiterates that “medication involves one greater long-term expenditure”.
In Spain there are two million of people with overweight
Levels of obesity have been increasingly in Spain every year, reaching figures of “15 per cent of overweight people, of which 5 percent is severe or morbid obesity”, Torres maintains. In his view, these data “are becoming worrisome”, as they affect more than 2 million people in Spain.
However, the therapeutic treatment had “great advances such as laparoscopy, which allows surgery minimally invasive”, argues. Thus Professor Torres rejects are dangerous surgeries, “as has been said so maliciously and uncertain”.
In line with this, reminded that the rate of morbidity and mortality “is around 0.3 per cent”, which makes it less risky “as a hip operation”. These good indexes have been made possible thanks to the multidisciplinary units, which “defines when the Bariatric patient is indicated”, confirms.
Regard to this group of professionals, Dr. Ruiz of Adana States that “they identified surgery the patient and prepare you so that it reaches it in the best possible conditions”. In addition, “help you to follow good habits of life” after the intervention and recovery process because it “multiply by 10 the effects of surgery”, Apostille.
However, the Professor Torres regrets that, despite the fact that these interventions “have a 95 per cent of success and make live 15 years longer people who undergo them that they do not, only 2 percent of those that need it are operated”. In this regard, Baltasar believes that “patients should be convinced to operate.” “It should be a personal decision”, statement.
1.5 Percent of SPANIARDS are obese children
Has been another problem of the increase in obesity rates its expansion to the adolescent population. For Torres, obese children are already “a 1.5 per cent of the total”, so recommended “implementing campaigns of prevention in society”.
However, the profile of the obese person described by the specialist attends an adult woman with associated metabolic diseases. According to their data, “65 percent of the obese are women”, while males only reaching 35 percent.
Is one of the people who has undergone Bariatric Surgery during these years Christopher Medina, which has been present on the anniversary of the first intervention. “My experience is wonderful, because to lose 60 pounds weight it ceased to reduce my quality of life and disappeared moral and physical problems”, recounts.
Finally, Baltasar has been “excited and hope” in the healing of diabetes type II in obese patients. “90 Percent of patients who have two pathologies and operated eliminate both diseases”, it resolves. However, the surgeon expected also reverse chronic disease in patients without being overweight. “It is going much in this”, concludes.
