
Destination facelift
Express India News Service
This year alone, Dr K M Kapoor at Fortis has conducted 20 major surgeries — liposuction, tummy tucks and breast augmentations — apart from numerous minor procedures like botox injections on foreigners.
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Hope for health
Express India News Service
There was both relief and happiness written all over their faces. Far from their homes and loved ones, these two women were here on a quest for both health and beauty, a search that finally ended and successfully at that. While a breast augmentation done in Prague left Toni Wildish, a British model almost dead, Annie Marie found it difficult to go about her daily chores because of excessive sagging of abdominal skin after the birth of her five children. ‘‘Thanks to the advancements in plastic and cosmetic surgery, we were able to help these women get control over their lives and health,'' smiles the unassuming Dr K M Kapoor, senior consultant, department of plastic surgery, Fortis Hospital, Mohali, who performed the two complicated and corrective surgeries.
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Lakhwinder Singh (Lucky), a 25-year-old man from Dera Bassi, who suffered severe electric burn injuries when he came in contact with an 11, 000 volt live wire, considers himself lucky to have survived an accident that proves fatal in 60 per cent case.
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Travelling in search of the healing touch
Express India News Service
Records suggest that city's private hospitals are fast becoming a favourite hub for medical tourists. A spokesperson from Fortis Hospital in Mohali tells Newsline that the number of foreign patients who visit the hospital has nearly doubled in the last two years.
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Cosmetic surgery tourism
This is Money
Upto 30,000 Britons pack their bags and head off abroad each year for surgery - most for cosmetic procedures though others want routine operations to beat the NHS queues.
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