A 36-year-old Egyptian woman, believed to be the worlds heaviest woman at 500 kilograms, has been brought to an Indian hospital to undergo surgical measures aimed at drastically reducing her weight and giving her a chance of a normal life.
A crane was used to lift Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty into hospital after she was flown from Egypt to Mumbai to start her treatment.
According to SKY NEWS, the 36-year-old, who was diagnosed with elephantiasis at birth, is going to be under observation for a month before she is operated on by renowned bariatric surgeon Dr Muffazal Lakdawala.
"To prepare her for the flight, a team of doctors has been in Egypt for the last ten days to optimise the conditions for her travel," Dr Lakdawala had said before Emans flight to India.
She has suffered paralysis in right leg and right arm which has left her completely immobile even in her bed. Eman Ahmed was lifted out of her bed by a crane.
However, a tweet by Lakdawala in December to Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, who was herself in the hospital at the time, drew an immediate response and a visa was promptly granted. Reportedly, her treatment in Mumbai could take two to three months. She will undergo bariatric, or weight loss surgery, which is a stomach-shrinking procedure.
For Eman Ahmed, the journey to Mumbai was her first outside her home in Alexandria in 25 years. The Indian foreign ministers intervention to get her a visa, an Airbus modified to equip it with a special bed, a truck at the Indian airport to whisk her to the hospital where a crane lifted her bed into a special unit for her treatment.
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