00:00As I mentioned earlier this is the first public-private partnership and we have
00:04the local government as a partner and very big on the agenda of the mayor is
00:09of course nutrition there goes obesity so what I learned in this summit is
00:17actually there are already programs that you know we can parachute to the local
00:23government so it's something that you know we can visit and see how we can
00:28apply it to Makati City. Can you walk us through what's included in the obesity
00:35care? For being a public-private partnership the city allows us to treat
00:43illnesses. Obesity is an illness as you heard. So part of the list of surgical
00:53procedures that's allowed by the city is actually metabolic surgery so comparing
01:00it with a bariatric or some would say that if you do metabolic or bariatric
01:07surgery it's for beautification or aesthetic. It's not. If you talk about metabolic
01:15surgery it sort of prevents early death for a big enough or a big segment of the
01:23community that is obese. So the purpose of the city allowing us to do those kinds of
01:35surgeries actually to prevent early death for those that are really obese.
02:05things that are really
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