Obesity surgery 'seeing 1,000 patients in 18 months'

15 July 2012 Last updated at 08:50 ET Help

A leading surgeon operating on the morbidly obese has told BBC Wales' Sunday Politics programme that obesity is on the rise, with his team having 1,000 referrals in 18 months.

One AM has suggested severely overweight children might have to be taken into care if no other way can be found to help them because he believes their parents are killing them with kindness.

Adrian Browne reports.

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