Updated On: 11 December, 2025 10:46 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Surgery as a treatment for diabetes was formally recognised in 2016 by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF)

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While uncontrolled diabetes is unfolding as a silent crisis in India, resulting in organ damage and failure, metabolic surgery can help prevent it, according to a doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi on Wednesday, December 10.
India is already known as the diabetes capital of the world, but Dr. Manjunath Maruti Pol, additional professor, Department of Surgery at AIIMS, New Delhi, shared that uncontrolled diabetes is surging complications such as kidney failure, heart attacks, strokes, neuropathy, and retinopathy, among others.