From left - Consultant Endocrinologist Dr. Uditha Bulugahapitiya, Consultant General Surgeon Prof. Thejana Wijeratne, Lanka Hospitals Group Chief Executive Officer Deepthi Lokuarachchi, Lanka Hospitals Deputy CEO / Director Medical Services, Dr. Lasantha Karunasekara

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, whichallowsa 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 patientsand 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 7 years our hospital has maintained the technology that is required to perform, investigate and manage very rare weight-loss complications.  In addition, we also havea multi-disciplinary team of experts, a fully equipped operating theatre, a specialized Intensive Care Unitand ward staff who are vastly experienced in conductingbariatric 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 anesthetics, 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,” Lead Surgeon of Lanka Hospitals’ Bariatric and Metabolic Surgical Team, Prof. Thejana Wijeratne said.