New Delhi: LNJP hospital hits a century with 100 Bariatric Surgeries

New Delhi: In what may be termed as a landmark achievement for a government hospital, Lok Nayak Hospital recently announced the completion of 100 bariatric surgeries at the hospital. A celebration of this event was organized on 13^th October 2016 at the New OPD Block of the hospital.

The MAMC LNH METABOLIC SURGERY PROGRAMME was launched in the year 2010 with the aim to provide quality state of the art services to the people suffering from morbid obesity i.e. Body Mass Index (BMI) > 38. This level of morbid obesity is associated with serious life threatening conditions like Hypertension, Diabetes, heart disease, obstructed sleep apnoe or severe snoring, respiratory ailments, joint problems etc. No organ of the body remains unaffected. This was started as survey revealed that nearly 15-20% of the population attending our OPDs or in the community suffered from obesity of some degree and was a significant cause of suffering to the patients and family. Also there was great economic impact of the disease in the society due to loss of man-work hours of the patient and the relatives, thus causing serious financial loss to the country.

The programme is headed by Dr Pawanindra Lal, Director Professor of Surgery at MAMC. Under the programme, a dedicated “metabolic Surgery OPD” was started in Lok Nayak Hospital from, April 2010 and more than 400 patients have been seen till date. This OPD runs twice a month and on every 2^nd and 4^th Thursday. This is unique as it provides a single place assessment of patient with the availability of a multi-disciplinary team consisting of surgeons doing detailed assessments, physician in the medican and endocrine clinic, services of a dedicated dietician in the OPD itself and consultation with anaesthesia faculty in the ICU. Psychiatric assessments are reserved for selective cases only.