If you are suffering from high obesity and are planning to go for a bariatric surgery, popularly known as weight-loss surgery in Vancouver, then there may be a chance of not getting the operation done.

The Vancouver Island Health Authority has planned to cut back the number of such surgeries in this year.

Jake Carte, a 26 year-old, who stands 5ft 7in, weighs 500 pounds and for him the weight is a burden he is carrying forth. Due to the heavy weight, he has developed plenty of health problems. He was admitted in the intensive care unit of the Royal Jubilee Hospital as he was suffering from heavy breathing problem.

Carte is supposed to have the operation done sometime in the end of 2011 and now he doesn't know if at all he will have the operation. It has put him into further tension apart from his ailing weight.

Like Carte, hundreds of obese British Columbians are demoralised by this decision of the Authorities. The BC Public Health System will reduce the number of bariatric surgeries by this year. The Vancouver Island Health Authority has decided to accommodate only 52 such surgeries this year while the Health Ministry website shows a list of 473 people on the waitlist.