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Why visit Pasig City?

Why is Pasig City a popular tourist destination?

Pasig City is the location of the Ortigas Centre Business District and the see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pasig. Its Cathedral is as old as the City and dates back to 1573. Pasig City has many large malls and shopping centres, cinemas, food courts and museums. Accommodation options in Pasig City include hotels for all budgets, guest houses and services apartments.   

Why is Pasig City an international medical tourism destination?  

Pasig City is home to the well-known and well-equipped tertiary hospital, Medical City. Besides this large well-equipped hospital there are many specialist clinics and hospitals that offer services to overseas patients. The clinics and hospitals are accredited by the Philippine Department of Health and international accreditation agencies like the JCI.    

How does a medical tourist get to Pasig City from the airport?

The Ninoy Aquino International Airport is not far from Pasig City. There are taxi services taking visitors from the airport to Pasig City. Visitors can get Jeepneys, the local Filipino transport vehicle outside the airport to take them to Pasig City. Most hospitals and clinics offer pickup and drop off services for medical tourists from the airport and local transportation services.

What are the visa requirements for medical tourists to the Philippines?

There are no specific medical tourism visas required for patients. Patients with valid passports and return tickets from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Kuwait and a few other countries do not require a visa for staying in the Philippines for up to 21 days. Patients can get details of visa requirements by visiting the website: www.immigration.gov.ph

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Philippine Obesity Control Surgery Team - Bariatric Surgery Clinic in Philippines

Philippine Obesity Control Surgery Team

The Medical City(Medical Arts Tower Suite 1901), Ortigas Avenue PAsig City
The Philippine Obesity Control Surgery Team, Inc. is composed of well-known advanced laparoscopic surgeons in the Philippines who have bonded together with a common mission of giving morbidly obese patients a better quality of life by giving them a life long control of their weight and associated medical illnesses through bariatric or obesity control or weight loss surgeries. This is the first team of its kind ever assembled in the history of Philippine Surgery, wherein patients with morbid or clinically severe obesity will be handled by all members of the team, rather than just one bariatric surgeon, from the time patient seeks consultation up to the time he/she is operated on and followed up.  Each member of the team is highly qualified to perform the obesity surgery when called for. This allows therefore the team to give a more comprehensive and more safety oriented surgical care, since all of the morbidly obese patients are special and highly sensitive patients that would need the best in quality surgical care and decision making.
Gastric Band  
The Philippine Obesity Control Surgery Team is doing the Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding at the Asian Hospital and Medical Center, De Los Santos Medical Center, FEU-NRMF Medical Center, Metropolitan Hospital, New Medical City and St Luke’s Medical Center.Reducing the capacity of the stomach to only 30 cc results to a decreased food intake and early but prolonged satiety. The patient will have an early feeling of fullness with minimal food intake and will not be hungry for a longer time resulting therefore to weight loss.
Gastric Balloon  
Gastric Sleeve  
The following patients will benefit most from sleeve Gastrcetomy: 1.        1. Those who don’t want foreign bodies to be placed inside their abdomen or too busy to comply with adjustments. 2.        2. Those who  don’t want to have malabsorption as a consequence of the procedure 3.       3.  Those who have other medical problems that prevent them from having more complicated weight loss procedures 4.        4. Those that need to take anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDS)  5.        5. Those who are diabetics, because sleeve gastrectomy has resulted to a faster and effective control of their blood sugar. It is now considered one of the metabolic surgeries for difficult to control diabetics.
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