New Delhi : Diabetes is increasing rapidly in India and it has become a crisis not only of normal diabetes but also of uncontrolled diabetes. Patients whose sugar is not controlled despite medicines or lifestyle improvements, their health is seriously affected. According to experts, if uncontrolled diabetes persists for a long time, it can cause serious problems like kidney failure, heart attack, stroke, eye diseases and limb amputation. About 70 million people in the country are suffering from diabetes and lakhs of them are living with life-threatening levels of sugar.
Impact of metabolic surgery at AIIMS
Let us tell you that metabolic or bariatric surgery has been done on 35 patients in Delhi’s AIIMS in 15 months. According to Dr. Manjunath, Additional Professor of Surgery Department of AIIMS, this surgery is proving to be life-saving for the patients. The blood sugar of patients comes under control from the first day after surgery and many patients do not need insulin or other medicines. Through this surgery, the patient’s stomach is made smaller and the length of the intestines is controlled by adding a pipe to the intestines, due to which the amount of grahlin, the hormone that controls appetite, decreases and other hormones that help in blood sugar control are not affected.
Benefits of surgery
According to Dr. Manjunath, patients with long-term uncontrolled diabetes have serious effects on other organs. Kidneys, heart and eyes get affected. After bariatric surgery, the life of patients returns to almost normal level, the possibility of damage to other organs is eliminated and the quality of life improves. With this surgery, the life of the patients gets longer and they can live a healthy life.
Who can get it done…?
Surgery can be done by patients between 18 and 65 years of age, but patients whose HbA1c level is up to 6.5 do not need it. The results of surgery may be less impressive in patients who have been taking insulin for a long time or who have uncontrolled diabetes for 20-25 years. In private hospitals, this surgery costs Rs 3 to 6 lakh, whereas in AIIMS it can be done at a lower cost and the patient can be discharged from the hospital two days after the two-hour surgery.
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