Dr. Sanjay Verma — Director of Minimal Access in Delhi NCR

Dr. Sanjay Verma is Director of Minimal Access, GI & Bariatric Surgery at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in Delhi NCR, with more than 25 years of experience. His record lists general and minimal access surgery alongside bariatric and metabolic surgery.

His procedures divide along the same line. The weight loss operations are sleeve gastrectomy, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and mini gastric bypass, performed by minimally invasive or robotic approach, with metabolic surgery for type 2 diabetes and bariatric surgery for metabolic syndrome listed as their own indications. The general laparoscopic work is cholecystectomy, appendectomy and hernia repair, with inguinal and incisional hernia named separately because they are repaired differently.

His qualifications are the longer part of his record. Beyond MBBS and MS he holds FMAS and FIAGES, and four separate fellowships: in bariatric surgery, in colorectal surgery, in hepatobiliary surgery and in advanced laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery. Four fellowships across four regions of the abdomen is unusual, and it explains why his list includes both the stomach operations done for weight and the liver, bile duct and bowel work that shares the same laparoscopic approach.

He practises at Fortis Escorts Hospital on Okhla Road in New Delhi.

For an international patient the practical significance of that training is straightforward. Weight loss surgery frequently uncovers problems elsewhere in the abdomen, and a surgeon separately qualified in colorectal and hepatobiliary work does not have to hand the case to someone else when it does.