On Tuesday a surgery was performed on Eman which would help in restricting the amount of food intake. Pictures taken of her before and after the surgery shows a huge difference.
Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, who is considered to be the heaviest living woman in the world and who came to India from Egypt as a 500 kg person, has now lost 100 kgs in the course of her treatment at a hospital in Mumbai.
On Tuesday a surgery was performed on Eman which would help in restricting the amount of food intake. Pictures taken of her before and after the surgery shows a huge difference.
Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty before (L) and after (R) her treatment.
As per the statement issued by Eman’s doctors, “Eman successfully underwent a Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on March 7th 2017 at Saifee Hospital. She had an uneventful surgery and anesthesia course. She is now on oral fluids and accepting them well. The future course of action for the medical team working on her will be to correct all her associated medical problems, to get her fit enough to fly back to Egypt as soon as possible.”
Sleeve gastrectomy involves removing most of the stomach, limiting the amount of food you can eat. Doctors treating Eman plan to make her lose 200 kg in six months. The doctors were surprised at the speed which Eman lost weight just with a good diet as they were aiming to lose 50 kgs in 25 days. But Eman lost 100 kgs in 25 days after which a sleeve bariatric surgery was performed.
Eman will soon be sent back to Alexandria and kept under observation until she returns back for the next procedure. Eman’s starting weight was 500 kgs, it was 488 kgs when she reached Mumbai and its 380 kgs now which may reduce more after the surgery.
At 500 Kilos, This Woman Is Believed To Be Fattest In The World
Only 36, Iman Ahmad Abdulati has not left her home in Alexandria for 25 years and is unable to move from her bed or even roll over because of her enormous size, the Daily Mail reported.
She relies on her mother and sister Chaymaa Abdulati to perform everyday tasks like eating, changing clothes, cleaning and relieving herself.
According to El Arabiya, she was born weighing a staggering five kg and was diagnosed with elephantiasis — a parasitic infection that causes extreme swelling in limbs.
Physicians have also said that due to a “disruption of glands”, her body stores and retains more water than it should.
As a baby, Iman learnt to get around using her hands. But by the age of 11 she couldn’t support herself while standing up due to her weight and thus resorted to crawling around the house.
She had to drop out of primary school after suffering a cerebral stroke, which left her bedridden.
Fearing death, her family has posted a desperate plea online to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi asking for medical assistance.
500 Kg Eman, World’s Heaviest Woman, Lands In Mumbai, Lifted By A Crane
Mumbai: Eman Ahmed, termed the heaviest women in the world, landed in Mumbai on Saturday for weight reduction treatment at a local facility. Ms Ahmed, 36, landed at Mumbai international airport around 4 am. Ms Ahmed was lifted, along with the bed on which she laid while travelling, with the help of a crane. She was then taken to a hospital on a special bed created to transport her, news agency PTI reported.
Ms Ahmed, who has not moved out of her house for 25 years, would be under observation for about a month before she undergoes surgery, doctors said.
She is currently under the care of a city-based bariatric surgeon Muffazal Lakdawala, and his team of doctors.
The doctors have been treating Eman for almost three months and took all the necessary precautions needed for the transportation of bed-bound Eman from Egypt’s Alexandria city.
“Even though transporting Eman to Mumbai was a challenging task keeping in mind the complexities of her case as she is a high risk patient who has not been able to move or leave the house for the past 25 years,” doctors said.
Eman Ahmed, 36, landed at Mumbai international airport around 4 am.
Eman was accompanied by Aparna Govil Bhasker, an Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgeon at Centre of Obesity and Digestive Surgery and Head of Department of Bariatric surgery at Saifee hospital, and Kamlesh Bohra, Senior Intensivist, Department of Critical and Intensive Care at Saifee Hospital in Mumbai.
“She, along with her sister Shaimaa Ahmed, arrived in Mumbai early on Saturday. To prepare her for the flight, the team of doctors have been in Egypt for the last 10 days to optimise the conditions for her travel; given the fact that she is so heavy and not moved for the last 25 years she is at a high risk for a pulmonary embolism and hence has been put on blood thinners to try and minimise the chances of such an eventuality during her transfer,” doctors said.
As a precautionary measure, the flight was furnished with all the equipment required in case of an emergency such as portable ventilator, portable defibrillator, oxygen cylinders, intubating laryngoscopes and other safety drugs.
Ms Ahmed is being transported by a fully equipped truck, which will be followed by an ambulance and a police escort to Saifee Hospital where a special room has been created for her.
