Americans are fighting an obesity epidemic. Obesity causes more injury and disease processes than most people realize. Even worse, finding affordable bariatric surgery or obesity weight loss procedures in the United States is growing increasingly difficult. Rising health care costs and the fact that many health insurance carriers don’t cover bariatric surgery unless a person meets certain qualifications is disheartening.

However, individuals in the United States are fortunate that a short plane ride away offers lower bariatric bypass surgery cost, as well as choices in laparoscopic surgery, duodenal switch, lap band, intragastric balloon, gastric sleeve, gastric bypass and a choice of some of the best obesity doctors in Guatemala.

One famous international bariatric surgery facility called Angels Abroad is dedicated, qualified and certified to meet the needs of patients traveling not only from the United States but around the world. Dr. Rodrigo González Toledo, who operates the facility, is an expert in gastrointestinal and laparoscopic surgery, and has received training at the Louis Pasteur University in Strassburg France, the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida.

Dr. González Toledo has performed hundreds of bariatric operations and procedures in France, Guatemala, and the United States over the past decade, and specializes in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy and revisional bariatric operations.

For some of the best, qualified and experienced bariatric care to be found in Latin America, research the facilities at Angels Abroad, and their affordable and high-quality bariatric surgery packages. You’ll be glad you did.