The Robotic Surgery Center continues to introduce new procedures, this time for the treatment of obesity and diabetes. The benefits of this surgery are weight loss, improvement of other associated diseases and not requiring insulin to maintain glucose levels.

Metabolic surgery is the therapeutic alternative with the best and most lasting results in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with obesity, as well as for those severe non-obese patients who are not well controlled with medical treatment.

This type of surgery consists of making modifications to the digestive tract to improve the comorbidities suffered by obese patients. On this occasion, HOMS invited Dr. James Hamilton, professor of surgery at the Universidad de Los Andes, chief of robotic surgery and deputy director of the bariatric surgery department of the Clínica Santa María in Chile, who participated as a professor and collaborator of the minimally invasive and robotic surgery team, integrated by Dr. Rafael Sánchez Español, Dr. Héctor Sánchez Navarro, Dr. José de Jesús Álvarez Torres and Dr. Juan Félix Capellán Santana.

As stated by Dr. Rafael Sanchez Español “.
Bariatric surgery, which was intended for obese patients with the purpose of reducing weight, has been observed over time to improve the associated metabolic diseases and significantly improve the patient’s quality of life.
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It is a surgical operation performed using a minimally invasive robotic technique, and as Dr. Rafael Sánchez Español, director of HOMS, points out, more than 120 robotic procedures have been performed in recent months with excellent results.

HOMS, faithful to its motto of “science and humanism”, continues to provide its patients and Dominican society with the most advanced technology and the highest level of quality and safety in medical care.