Having your Gastric Lap Banding Surgery in Belgium has become very common, and Belgium has become one of the medical tourism destinations in Europe for Weight Loss Surgery and especially laparoscopic gastric band surgery.
Whats the reasons for Belgium becoming such a popular destination in Europe?
Huge cost savings: In the UK for example, you may have to pay a whopping 9,000 – 12,000 for the gastric lap band, whereas the same procedure in Belgium will cost around 4,000. Surprisingly with this savings the quality of the gastric banding surgery is not less.
Quality of surgery: Belgium has a long been known for an affordable and high quality weight loss surgery medical centres. Laparoscopy, in fact is one of the areas of expertise of Belgian medical tourism for a long time. Gastric Lap Band or Gastric bypass is done by laparoscopy where possible and as this means a reduced stay in hospital, the patients too find this a great choice.
Belgian hospitals have a very high standard of hygiene standards and always uses the latest technology. Recently, The World Markets Research Centre put Belgium on top of a list of 175 countries on ratings done for medical purposes, one of the ratings being secondary infection or Staph rates. Belgiums secondary infection rate was found to be on an average less than 0.5% compared with 10% in the UK.
Belgium has achieved a very high surgical expertise mainly due to the quality of training given to its doctors. Typically their Belgian doctors are trained for a minimum of seven years; for specialists it is 12 years.
A problem with overseas surgery is the follow up inspections that can easy be one in England or Ireland though their network as they have links to local doctors to ensure all is well.
Waiting is nearly zero, gone are the days of waiting months like UK, there its prelim inspection then your surgeries next, you can decide the actual date.
Belgian is located very near to the surrounding EU countries and its accessibility by train, car, plane, all major routes go though Belgian so access is no issue. Eurolines do coaches from most places in the EU.
The location is ideal as they are central to many countries in the EU, Most countries have contact with Belgium by train, plane and auto mobile.
Belgians climate is ideal for people from the UK, as they basically have the same weather with nice summers and cold winters. Language is not much an issue they speak Dutch, German and French and most will speak English too.
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