HSE deferral of obesity surgery ‘morally wrong’
Even though Colm O’Boyle potentially stands to gain from the HSE’s decision, he said that denying patients the option of bariatric (weight-loss) surgery “for whom every other option had failed” was “a catastrophe waiting to happen”.
The consultant general, laparascopic (keyhole), and bariatric surgeon at the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork said that the patients on the waiting list for the surgery — suspended at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin — had been selected on the basis that it was “a last resort”.
