Today professor Mitiku Belachew, the first surgeon to perform the procedure on a human in 1991 in Belgium, joins The Way Forward. Belachew has since being teaching other surgeons this procedure across the United States. The Lap Band System was FDA approved in 2001.
Also joining The Way Forward is Dr. Charles Diggiss, the first surgeon in Caribbean to perform this procedure and only surgeon in the region qualified to perform it.
The first two Bahamians to get the Lap Band surgery in the Bahamas were performed on yesterday.
The first two Lap Band surgeries in the Bahamas were performed yesterday. The procedure was first performed about 10 years ago, on two Americans who would have been a part of medical tourism.
Forty surgeries performed by Belgian and Moroccan professors
| The 03/25/2007 | In Miscellaneous
ERRACHIDIA (MAP) – About forty surgical interventions, including 32 under video laparoscopy (laparoscopic surgery), were carried out during the first surgical and educational days organized, from March 12 to 19, at the Moulay Ali Chérif d’Errachidia hospital in the initiative of the provincial health delegation and the Tarik Ibn Zyad Center, Errachidia section, we learned from the organizers. These operations were the work of Belgian professors, namely Mitiku Belachew, inventor of the gastric band and known worldwide as the father of bariatric surgery, Pierre Honore, head of work at the faculty of medicine under the University de Liège, doctor Anne Marie Caillet, anesthesiologist at the CHU de Liège, as well as Moroccan professors, including Amraoui Mohamed, from the surgical emergency department of the CHU de Rabat, Kafih Mohamed, secretary general of the Moroccan society of digestive surgery and El Alaoui Abidi , visceral surgeon, former teacher at the Faculty of Medicine of Casablanca.
These coaching days organized for the benefit of the staff of the operating room of the Moulay Ali Chérif hospital in Errachidia and Goulmima, as well as student nurses, are part of continuing training and the promotion of new technologies, particularly in the field of video surgery, the same sources point out.
In addition to surgical operations, the program has provided six theoretical training sessions on video surgery in the form of lectures and video and multimedia projections, as well as anesthesia resuscitation courses. Source: MAP
