World’s heaviest woman to go under knife
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INDIAN doctors put an Egyptian believed to be the world’s heaviest woman on a special liquid diet yesterday as they prepared her for an emergency weight-loss operation.
Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty weighs around 500 kilograms and had not left her house in more than two decades until arriving in Mumbai at the weekend for bariatric surgery.
Doctors said the 37-year-old would be fed only liquid supplements for the next 25 days to help her lose the 50kg required before operating.
“Only after all the diseases related to obesity are brought under control and Eman loses weight will we conduct the surgery,” Dr Muffazal Lakdawala told reporters.
He said the procedure would take two and a half hours. The specialist weight-loss surgeon said he and his team at Saifee Hospital hoped the surgery would help Abd El Aty shed another 150kg. It would allow her to sit up and feed herself, something not possible in her present state.
After the surgery she will be closely monitored by the Indian specialists for five months. She will receive physiotherapy to exercise her muscles before returning to Egypt.
Lakdawala said if the treatment was successful then doctors could use surgery to bring her weight down to under 100kg in a couple of years’ time. The Egyptian was flown to India’s commercial capital in a specially modified Airbus on Saturday for treatment. Abd El Aty had a long wait as no airlines were willing to fly her due to her health complications.
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