Two obese residents of Nizhny Novgorod were operated on under compulsory health insurance.

      The first patients with obesity were operated on in Nizhny Novgorod under the compulsory medical insurance (OMS) system. This was reported by the editor-in-chief of MIA "Stacionar-Press" Alexey Nikонов on his Max channel. The surgeries took place in early 2026 at hospitals No. 40 and No. 33. During one, surgeons performed "stomach stitching." During the second, a complex bypass was performed, resulting in a reduction of stomach volume and the exclusion of part of the intestine from the absorption process. Bariatric surgery—a method of treating obesity through surgical intervention on the gastrointestinal organs—is not an aesthetic procedure. It saves lives for people with extreme, severe obesity—morbid obesity. In such a condition, excess weight hinders the functioning of the heart and joints and provokes diabetes. At the same time, bariatric surgery is not accessible to everyone for a fee. The possibility of performing such interventions under OMS gives patients a chance for a healthy life.

      The OMS fund of the Nizhny Novgorod region noted that the volumes for performing surgeries are distributed among the N.A. Semashko Regional Clinical Hospital, City Clinical Hospital No. 5, and hospitals No. 33 and No. 40 in Nizhny Novgorod.

      Marina Uhabova

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