Union minister Arun Jaitley undergoes diabetes management surgery in a private hospital

NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today underwent a planned diabetes management surgery at a private hospital here and was recovering well.
61-year-old Jaitley was admitted to the hospital in Saket last evening and today an elective laparoscopic procedure was carried out on him.

"Arun Jaitley underwent a planned elective laparoscopic procedure for diabetes management today. The procedure has been performed successfully," a statement issued by the hospital said.

Jaitley has been a diabetic for last few years. "It was a planned surgery. He was admitted at around 6 PM yesterday. The surgery is done in an uncontrolled diabetic situation," Dr Pradeep K Chowbey at the hospital said.

"In this procedure we staple the stomach and make a small pouch of stomach and connect it to the intestine. Thus the food from the small pouch goes to the intestine directly. All this is done endoscopically and laparoscopically," he said.

Chowbey said Jaitley was doing fine and will be discharged in a day or two.

Jaitley had underwent a series of routine blood and cardiac investigations before the surgery.