Ontario’s increased spending in bariatric surgery, also known as gastric bypass surgery, will result in Guelph General Hospital doing 240 surgeries per year by 2010-11.
As part of Ontario’s diabetes strategy the province is spending $75-million over the next three years to increase bariatric surgery capacity in the Ontario from 244 a year to 1,470.
Guelph General will become a bariatric centre, acknowledging the existing resources already in place.
The initiative will lower pressure on Ontario’s out of country program, saving approximately $10,000 for every bariatric case done here and not sent to the United States.
