IN THE current climate of spending cuts and the NHS in which I am employed struggling to make ends meet, I find it difficult to read of the first person in the UK having groundbreaking surgery to fit her with a “gastric pacemaker” (Daily Echo, November 9).

The designers state that it “restrains over-eaters to eat at fixed meal times” only.

So here we have a device costing £10,000 that every overweight person in the country will now want as their “magic cure”.

Well sorry but if they hadn’t overeaten in the first place they wouldn’t be in the predicament of needing “gastric pacemakers” fitted.

I find this quite incredulous when we often hear of people being denied other treatments such as cancer medication because the treatments are too expensive.

These people did not ask for cancer but obese people chose to eat.

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