Dear patients of the Center for Bariatric Surgery:

In the coming weeks we will be available between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. in practice by email and email . An emergency medical service will be present daily if you experience symptoms related to your stomach surgery.

Nutritional advice is also still there for you: Every Monday and Tuesday morning between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Psychological telephone consultation is possible on request.

We wish you good health
The practice team ZFBC

Due to the Federal Council’s COVID 19 regulation, we will have to reduce our regular office hours to emergency treatment. This means that regular annual checks and follow-up checks have to be postponed. We are still available to answer urgent questions and can be reached by phone.

Classification of high-risk patients – coronavirus (COVID-19)

We would like to inform you that patients undergoing bariatric surgery (overweight surgery) are not generally classified as high-risk patients .

We refer here to the instructions of the BAG. Particularly vulnerable people:

https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/de/home/krankheiten/ausbrueche-epidemien-pandemien/aktuelle-ausbrueche-epidemien/novel-cov/besonders-gefaehrdete-menschen.html

Due to the Federal Council’s COVID 19 regulation, we will have to reduce our regular office hours to emergency treatment. This means that regular annual checks and follow-up checks have to be postponed. We are still available to answer urgent questions and can be reached by phone.

Dr. med. Michèle Gasser
Dr. med. Claudia Meier
Dr. med. Yvette Ottiger
Dr. med. Stefan Schäfer
Dr. med. Rudolf Steffen
Dr. med. Jörg Zehetner

Seilerstrasse 8
3011 Bern
Switzerland

Tel .: +41 31 310 15 99
Fax: +41 31 310 15 98

Email:  bc@hin.ch