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Indian clinic offers relief to extremely obese Canadian
Thirty-year-old Brian Andrew Adair has a spring in his step. The Canadian, a 'super morbid obese' in medical parlance, is on his way to shedding more than half his 200 kg weight - thanks to surgery performed in India.
- IANS
- Published: 23:33 January 16, 2009
New Delhi: Thirty-year-old Brian Andrew Adair has a spring in his step. The Canadian, a 'super morbid obese' in medical parlance, is on his way to shedding more than half his 200 kg weight - thanks to surgery performed in India.
And he won't lose just his weight but also his hunger pangs. He is now confident he will not be in danger of attracting diseases connected with his weight like diabetes and cardiovascular ailments.
"I feel great and I am very happy," Adair said as he was discharged from the Artemis Health Institute in suburban Gurgaon.
What had really worried him was his body mass index (BMI), the most common measure of obesity, which was extraordinarily high at 85. The normal is 25.
"As I suffered from severe obesity, it was hindering my life. My doctor also warned me that I was at risk of getting multiple health problems," said Adair, who works as a civil contractor.
"I was told to go through weight-reducing surgery. But I found that it would take another two years to undergo surgery in Canada because of the long waiting list."
In India, he found the success rate of sleeve gastrectomy surgery in Artemis high and contacted Deep Goel, head of its Minimal Invasive and Bariatric Surgery.
Three-hour operation
He came to the country on January 8 and two days later underwent a three-hour-long surgery. Doctors were ready to discharge him on January 12, but he insisted on staying back another day.
One reason Adair chose the Indian hospital was that it cost him less. "It was much cheaper as compared to the West," his doctor added.
The weight-loss surgery he underwent involves about 60-70 per cent of a patient 's stomach being removed.
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