The obesityin addition to generating health problemsit is also a burden on the pocket, because a treatment pTo lose weight it can cost up to $250 a monthsaid Bib System manager Felipe Navarro.
He explained to MILLENNIUM that, without having a prepared health system, the costs for the people who suffer from this disease usually increase due to treatments or surgical procedures.
“This cost includes medicines, basically for patients who have other morbidities such as diabetes and hypertension; that is why health programs are insufficient,” he said.
In this regard, he stated that economic losses derived from this disease represent approximately 2.1 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), because seven out of 10 people suffer obesity.
Felipe Navarro highlighted that more than half of the population of Mexico suffers from this conditionbeing the andStates with the highest number of cases of this disease Campeche, Veracruz, Chiapas and Yucatan.
“Mexico ranks fifth in the world in childhood obesity and first in adult obesity in Latin America,” he said.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, This disease causes economic losses because it reduces the country’s competitiveness, causes lower labor productivityhigher cost to the public treasury and a decrease in the quality of life.
Among the treatments more expensive to combat obesity, the manager of Bib System mentioned that the gastric balloon It is an option not only for adults, but also for children, and that can have a cost of up to 55 thousand pesos.
While others treatments for adults, such as Bypass, gastric sleeve and laparoscopy, usually have prices of up to 130 thousand pesos by procedure.
However, he warned that treatments of Liposuction is not a weight loss procedurebut they are surgical, since they are used to shape the body in an aesthetic way.
