Karim Adel - Cairo
"The traitorous people are dead, a burden on their people and on the state." This statement triggered a crisis for the Egyptian media Riham Said in the last hours, but it was also a new echo of the repeated criticism of obesity in Egypt, issued by the media and even politicians, exploited by doctors and investment makers in the industry of "trade" of controversial obesity surgeries in Egypt, as some say.
The rate of obesity in Egypt is 39.7%, which is a high rate globally, and conducts in Egypt thirty thousand bariatric surgery annually, and is expected to increase in the coming years with increasing rates of obesity and diseases resulting, according to unofficial estimates.
Dr. Hassan Fikry Mansour, a member of the European Fellowship in Clinical Nutrition (ESPN), told Al Jazeera Net that at a certain stage obesity surgeries become a necessity and must be performed, which is known as the stage of fatal obesity.
The therapeutic nutrition consultant requires the exhaustion of all other methods of diet, sports and medical drugs, before reaching the surgeries that are suitable for obesity to the disease accompanied by severe chronic diseases.
Support
He stresses the importance of community and media support for obesity in the morbid phase and stop bullying.
The clinics of doctors specializing in bariatric surgery have become active media circles to promote the advantages of surgery and doctor's certificates, using some patients to promote them.
Obesity has severe health effects, such as chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders and some cancers.It has also been shown that there is a link between childhood obesity and an increased risk of premature death and the risk of disability in the middle age.
According to published studies by FAO, 10 million Egyptian women are obese.
Major obesity surgeries
According to Dr. Atyaf Ahmed, the prices of bariatric surgery in Egypt range from thirty to fifty thousand pounds (the dollar equals about 16.5 pounds), and may exceed that barrier. She said in an exclusive interview that the months in these surgeries are the processes of gastric sleeve and routing.
The Egyptian doctor believes that obesity surgeries are unnecessarily performed many times, and has become more like fashion and the new wave in society to get the perfect shape in the luxurious layers.
Gag sleeve is one of the most famous surgeries to face obesity in Egypt, a method of weight loss through surgery, in which the doctor removes about 75% of the stomach. The process of gastric bypass is competing in this area, but it is laparoscopic.
There is a "stomach balloon" method, a non-surgical procedure within obesity surgeries in Egypt helps the patient to lose weight, but to a certain extent, where a balloon made of special materials are tolerated stomach acids.
The gastric band operation is a silicon ring that does not interact with the body tissues.
Negative effects
But the surgery also has problems. Egyptian artist Souad Nasr is the most famous to die in obesity surgery clinics during a liposuction, but she died of a medical error in 2005 to shed light on the ongoing medical errors in the field.
Nabila Moustafa tells the story of her young sister-in-law, who had the idea of gastric sleeve in early 2017, but was the cause of his sudden death after the operation.
She points to the island Net that the matter is still circulating in the courts because of the mistake of the doctor who died, and ended the life of her sister early.
The crisis is frequent in the courts, and their galleries often witness lawsuits in this regard. For example, in May 2018, the first misdemeanor court in the north of the country sentenced Dr. Yasser H to six months in prison for medical negligence, which led to the death of Ali Hassan, in gastric bypass surgery to relieve obesity and reduce high blood pressure in case No. 524. For the year 2018 the first sand cover.
Reports warn against going to obesity surgery, especially gastric sleeve without need, because it has its problems and complications.