Dr. Tahir Yunus MBBS DABS FACS FASMBS* is a Consultant surgeon for Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery. He has more than 10 years of experience and has performed over 3000 surgeries. He graduated from King Edward University, Lahore, and trained at the William Beaumont Hospital in Michigan where he completed the American Board of Surgery
certification (DABS). He pursued advanced sub-specialty training in advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, and then completed the American Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM). For 10 years he has worked at the International Medical Center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as a Consultant in Advanced Laparoscopic
and Bariatric Surgery. He was the Chairman of Surgery and led a surgical department with over 70 surgeons of all subspecialties. He also served as the Chairman of the Operating Rooms and Director of Surgical Quality where he introduced major surgical quality initiatives to provide patients with the safest and most technologically advanced surgical environment in the region.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and a Fellow of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (FASMBS). He has presented at multiple international surgical meetings and is actively
engaged with regional surgical societies in the training of other surgeons. He is an expert bariatric surgeon and master trainer for laparoscopic surgery. He is currently the ‘Vice-Chair’ on the training committee for the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO) chapter of the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) and actively conducts training seminars at different academic hospitals.

Laparoscopic surgery is done using a camera with tiny holes in the abdomen. As an expert with dedicated specialized training and over 10 years of international experience in laparoscopic surgery, Dr. Yunus is able to perform the majority of abdominal surgeries including complex hernia, gastrointestinal, and cancer surgeries with this technique. Laparoscopic surgery provides:

• Quick recovery
• Less scarring
• Less pain
• Excellent outcomes

Bariatric or weight loss surgery is a laparoscopic surgery done on the stomach and small intestines that helps reduce the hormones responsible for gaining excess weight. Having excessive weight is called obesity. This is a disease where the excess weight causes other health problems like diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, knee and back pains, sleeping difficulty, shortness of breath on walking, heart problems, and even infertility. Bariatric surgery is a very safe and effective treatment of obesity. It has been proven to:

• Effectively reduce excess weight
• Improve health and quality of life
• Reduce the risk of heart disease and cancers
• Boost your self-esteem and confidence

Clinic 

Evercare hospital NESPAK and Broadway surgery DHA.

Surgery

Evercare

Evercare Hospital Lahore is part of an international group of hospitals in 5 countries. It is a purpose-built 200-bed tertiary-care hospital facility having spacious floors and rooms, a welcoming environment, the latest diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, and physicians from all medical specialties. The floors have ward rooms, semi-private rooms, private rooms, executive suites, and intensive care unit rooms. The hospital has an in-house kitchen for patient meals, international healthcare standards, up-to-date operating theaters, best anesthesia facility, high-quality international standards of sterilization, and one-time disposable use of patient-specific equipment. In short, it has all the facilities to have the safest surgery.