Bariatric Surgery in Mexico

Bariatric surgery in Mexico is a big attraction for the self pay (cash pay) patients from the USA. Here is a memoir of Sarah, who with her husband shares her journey of overcoming obesity by having the gastric sleeve surgery in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico near el paso texas. Weight loss surgery like gastric bypass, gastric sleeve, gastric lap band in Mexico are at about 50% the price that are in the USA. Obesity is a growing epidemic in the world, lifestyle changes, dietary changes are some of the reasons for it. Bariatrics was not even known as a major medical field till few years now. But now bariatric surgeons are in high demand. Most bariatric surgeons in Mexico started training & career as a as general laparascopic surgery expert. Weight loss (bariatric surgery) procedures are also popular in Mexico due to the close proximity of the major bariatric surgery centers like TIjuana, Ciudad Juarez & Monterrey.