Special tools ordered to treat the Obese

October 2, 2005

Many hospitals in Scotland are importing equipments from America in order to operate on obese patients. The instruments available with the Scottish doctors are not enough to treat the overweight or obese people.

The overweight patients fail to fit into conventional operating tables. Scalpels and ultrasound scanners are not able to penetrate the deep layers of fat on many patients. An Obstetrician says that caesarian sections have to be conducted on hospital bed at times as the patient gets too heavy for the operating table. Also, obese pregnant women weigh more than 20 stone and doctors struggle to cope with the surgery. Due to the inability to penetrate large fat deposits, many birth defects and complications go unnoticed.