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Day Surgeries Help Reduce Hospital Costs

DUBAI - Patients in the country can opt for day-care surgeries in order to reduce hospital expenses, according to a health expert.

“The first advantage of the procedure is for the patient because trials and studies have proved that recovery is better done by the patient himself and his family rather by the hospital staff,” says Dr Reza Barei, specialist laparoscopic surgeon at International Institute of Ambulatory Surgery (IIAmbs) Paris that has joined forces with Sharjah Corniche Hospital.

A day surgery means stay at the hospital from morning till midday or evening. “It concerns analgesia, food, bed and psychological environment,” he explains.

Dr Barei says that day surgery is more economical for the patient. “Studies have proved that for more than 50 per cent of the surgical procedures, hospital stay is justified by the analgesic tablets distribution,” explains the doctor.

“To have a complete team by night just to give some tablets represent a very high cost in the final fee of the operations,” he adds.

Procedures that can be carried out in Sharjah Corniche Hospital that is due to open next month, include general and digestive surgery such as cholecystectomy (removal of gall bladder), hernia repair, gastric banding for morbid obesity, ovarian cysts removal, rectal, gastro-esophageal (digestive system) reflux repair, circumcision, lymph node excision and surgeries for abscess.

“We want to propose heavy surgery such as for cancer, gastric bypass and gastrectomy for morbid obesity hospitals with ICUs,” he says, adding that surgeries such as esophageal pancreatic and liver operations should be done in Paris.

The World Health Organisation has valued French surgery as the best in the world and introduced laparoscopic digestive surgery as “the second French revolution” by the end of 80s.

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