| Medical tourism in India provides Bariatric surgery at a | | | | techniques, involving smaller instruments connected to |
| very low cost in comparison to the western countries. | | | | cameras through which they view the operational site. |
| Treatment in US & UK = Treatment + Tourism in | | | | The two types of bariatric surgeries are (1) restrictive - |
| India, and even then you find it much budget saving | | | | like Lap Band®, and (2) combined restrictive and |
| treatment than in any other countries. The majority of | | | | malabsorptive - such as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. |
| medical staff in private hospitals in India has been | | | | Many people do not meet the NIH requirements or do |
| trained in America. This allows visitors to avail the | | | | not have the insurance benefit for weight loss surgery, |
| same high standard of care as in the US without the | | | | but they may still be able to pursue the procedure by |
| worry of post treatment debt. Facilities within hospitals | | | | paying for it themselves. |
| meet world class expectations. Those traveling from | | | | Although not cost-saving, bariatric surgery appears to |
| the other part of world will not even have to change | | | | be a good value for the money, the results from a |
| currency when crossing the border; the dollar is used | | | | large single-center study showed. The long-term |
| throughout India. Bariatric surgery in India is done with | | | | cost-effectiveness of bariatric surgery will largely |
| the help of most advanced technique available for the | | | | depend on the natural history and extent of late |
| treatment. | | | | postsurgical complications and costs. |
| What is Bariatric surgery? | | | | How Bariatric surgery in India is cost effective: |
| Bariatric surgery, or weight loss surgery, is a type of | | | | India offers medical treatments at almost one tenth of |
| procedure performed on people who are dangerously | | | | US costs, combined with high quality of medical care |
| obese, for the purpose of losing weight. This weight | | | | as well as medical technology. With medical tourism |
| loss is usually achieved by reducing the size of the | | | | being recognized as a national industry in the county, |
| stomach with an implanted medical device (gastric | | | | Indian government has taken several measures to |
| banding) or through removal of a portion of the | | | | promote the healthcare industry. Medical tourism gives |
| stomach (sleeve gastrectomy or biliopancreatic | | | | the global medical tourist the opportunity to get the |
| diversion with duodenal switch) or by resecting and | | | | best quality of medical surgery such as Bariatric |
| re-routing the small intestines to a small stomach pouch | | | | surgery, at significantly lower cost. While the low cost |
| (gastric bypass surgery). Bariatric surgery limits the | | | | is the primarily motivation to travel to India, some |
| amount of food you can take in. Some operations also | | | | medical tourist seek medical care to India because of |
| restrict the amount of food you can digest. Many | | | | immediate availability of procedure. India is on the card |
| people who have the surgery lose weight quickly. | | | | because of top qualities medical expertise to offer and |
| Some bariatric procedures are performed using | | | | that of very effective budget package for Bariatric |
| general anesthesia via a midline abdominal incision. | | | | surgery in India. |
| Some bariatric surgeons also use laparoscopic surgical | | | | |