SWITCH at Sengkang General Hospital adopts a multidisciplinary team approach to help individuals lead a healthy lifestyle and in the process, achieve long-term weight loss and weight maintenance. The hospital's vision of "Healthy Living. Fulfilling Life" is at the heart of the SWITCH, which aims to provide evidence-based weight loss programme.
SWITCH provides integrated weight management care to help individuals achieve complete physical, mental, psychological and spiritual wellness. Using evidence-based approaches to weight management, the multidisciplinary team comprising bariatric physicians and surgeons, psychiatrist, psychologists, physiotherapists, and dieticians who will guide them throughout the programme to achieve long-term complete health. The comprehensive services include dietary modification advice, exercise and physical activity, behavioural modification, medical therapy, bariatric endoscopy as well as bariatric metabolic surgery.
Conditions we treat
- Obesity
- Obesity Related Health Problems
- Weight regain after Bariatric Surgery
Our Clinical Services
- Bariatric Surgery
- Bariatric Endoscopy – Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty/Intragastric balloon
- Medical Weight Management
- Cardiopulmonary (Fitness) Exercise Testing
- Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) assessment
- Exercise consultation and prescription
- Supervised exercise
- Assessment of psychological conditions
- Psychotherapy for weight management issues and other psychological conditions
- Pre-surgical screening for bariatric surgery
- Medical Health assessment for obesity and medical therapy prescription
- Plastic Surgery – Post-bariatric surgery body contouring surgery
