Lanka Hospitals becomes first private hospital in Sri Lanka to complete 100 bariatric surgeries

Lanka Hospitals, the internationally accredited, multiple award-winning healthcare provider, reached another milestone recently when it became the first private hospital in Sri Lanka to successfully complete 100 bariatric (weight-loss) surgeries. 

The bariatric (weight-loss) surgery is a technologically advanced procedure carried out as a key-hole surgery or as an enhanced recovery (ERAS) protocol operation, which allows a patient to be discharged after the surgery within a maximum of 48 hours and to thereafter effectively lose weight over a period of time. The bariatric (weight-loss) surgery has successfully ensured significant weight loss in over 100 obese patients and also successfully cured patients of multiple illnesses such as uncontrolled diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, uncontrolled hyper tension and subfertility. 

“Lanka Hospitals’ surgical team has reached the pinnacle of its journey in bariatric surgery by becoming the first private hospital in Sri Lanka to complete 100 bariatric weight-loss surgeries. Over the last seven years our hospital has maintained the technology that is required to perform, investigate and manage very rare weight-loss complications. In addition, we also have a multi-disciplinary team of experts, a fully equipped operating theatre, a specialised Intensive Care Unit and ward staff who are vastly experienced in conducting bariatric weight-loss surgeries,” Lanka Hospitals Group Chief Executive Officer Deepthi Lokuarachchi stated. 

“Bariatric weight-loss surgery has been in existence for many decades, but it is still a relatively novel concept in Sri Lanka. In the past, most obesity surgeries were conducted as open surgeries. However, with new advances in technology, surgical anaesthetics, post-operative care and pain management it is now possible to offer minimally invasive surgical procedures in weight-loss with minimum scarring and within a much faster recovery period,” Lanka Hospitals Bariatric and Metabolic Surgical Team Lead Surgeon Prof. Thejana Wijeratne stated.