Had a really productive week in Doha. This time we completed 32 operations in one week. On the first day alone we did 9 cases and 7 operations were done just the day of my departure. The rest of the days we were plaqued by unavailability of operating rooms. Nevertheless it was a good result from a weeks visit.
The picture shows a happy Palestinian patient and her 2 lovely daughters. Many of the patients have had gastric banding and were being converted to sleeve resection. One patient had a migrated band which we removed endoscopically through the stomach.
There is still a 2600 waiting list and every clinic at least 10 new patients added to it. It will take at least 2 years to get to any patient registering now.