Min Hospital (Director Kim Jong-min) recently announced that it hosted a bariatric and metabolic surgery observation program attended by surgeons from Saudi Arabia and China.
According to the hospital, a delegation composed of surgeons from Saudi Arabia and China visited its main facility located in Mia-dong, Gangbuk-gu, Seoul. The visit was organized as an opportunity to share the clinical expertise in bariatric and metabolic surgery that Min Hospital has accumulated, with the goal of building a global medical education network. The program also reflects the hospital’s ongoing efforts to standardize bariatric and metabolic surgical techniques with a strong emphasis on patient safety, both domestically and internationally.
During the program, the visiting surgeons directly observed a Single Anastomosis Sleeve Ileal Bypass (SASI) procedure performed by Hospital Director Kim Jong-min. The delegation followed the entire clinical process in real time, from strict preoperative patient evaluation to structured surgical procedures and complication-prevention strategies. Through this experience, they learned the hospital’s advanced surgical know-how. The visitors reportedly showed particular interest in the patient-safety-focused surgical design as well as the hospital’s systematic postoperative recovery management system.
Min Hospital has previously been recognized for introducing the sleeve–ileal bypass procedure in Korea and has been designated as both a Johnson & Johnson MedTech “M.A.S.T.E.R. Institute” and a certified bariatric and metabolic surgery center by the Korean Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Based on these recognitions, the hospital currently operates specialized training programs in bariatric and metabolic surgery for both domestic and international medical professionals.
In addition, Min Hospital has established a patient-centered care system in which endocrine surgeons directly oversee the entire treatment process, including consultation, diagnostic testing, surgery, postoperative follow-up, and nutritional and lifestyle management. With clinical experience of more than 1,500 cases of diabetes and bariatric metabolic surgery, the hospital provides customized surgical treatments tailored to each patient’s body type, type of diabetes, and pancreatic function.
Hospital Director Kim Jong-min explained that Min Hospital, as a specialized center for metabolic surgery for diabetes, performs not only sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass but also a variety of sleeve-based bypass procedures such as duodenal bypass, proximal jejunal bypass, and sleeve–ileal bypass. He added that the hospital’s strength lies in selecting the most appropriate surgical method from five different procedures based on factors such as the patient’s BMI, duration of diabetes, and pancreatic function, thereby maximizing treatment effectiveness while reducing the risk of recurrence.