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The Cost To The NHS Due To Obesity Is A Staggering £25 Million Plus! By Laurie Whyman
Obese patients have cost the NHS over £25 million extra since 2006 for reinforced beds, operating tables, and extra wide stretchers.
Posted: Tuesday 6th September 2011
This is for the purchase of reinforced beds, operating tables, and extra wide strechers. Plus massive fridges for the mortuarys for accomodating up 50stone corpses, even giant commodes for patients whose massive butts won't fit on a normal toilet seat!
But the worrying thing is this huge amount does not include the cost of obese related home care, drugs and equipment!
The UK ambulance services alone have spent in the region of £13 million upgrading their vehicles with heavy lifting equipment and reinforcing the suspension etc to deal with the increasing number of obese patients.
One NHS trust spent £140 thousand on heavy duty operating tables, while another spent £42 thousand plus on reinforced birthing tables to deal with their fat mothers to be, £3 thousand alone was spent just on one giant scale to weigh their patients by one NHS trust.
These figures are mirrored all across the UK and in one, beds that can accomodate patients of up to 39 stone are now considered normal.
The NHS is "groaning " under the weight of obesity ( please excuse the pun), and the situation is set to get worse as the experts predict that half of the population will be obese by 2030.
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