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Formerly the thickest woman in the world lost around 330 kilos thanks to intensive diet and surgery
The 37-year-old Eman Ahmed from Egypt has long been considered the heaviest woman in the world. With a special diet and a successful operation, she has managed to lose a lot of weight. She reduced her body weight from formerly about 500 to 170 kilos. Now she will undergo a prolonged physiotherapy.
Formerly heaviest woman in the world
The 37-year-old Egyptian Eman Ahmed Abd al-Ati has lost about 330 kilos with the help of doctors in India. Previously, she had been regarded as the "heaviest woman in the world" with over 500 kg. The treating physicians were even surprised at how fast the weight reduction progressed. However, her treatment is far from complete. She continues to suffer from numerous health complaints. A few days ago she was transferred to Abu Dhabi for further treatment from India.
The formerly heaviest woman in the world has reduced her weight within three months from the former 500 kilos to 170 kilos. This is thanks to a special diet and surgery. (Image: BillionPhotos.com/ fotolia.com) Weight loss thanks to liquid diet and gastric bypass
Eman Ahmed had not left her home in Alexandria (Egypt) for more than two decades until she was sent to India for the life-saving operation in February.
At first, no airline had been found for a long time. Finally, she was brought to Mumbai with a specially converted machine. At that time she weighed about 500 kilos.
According to a BBC report, Eman Ahmed weighed in at five kilos when she was born, and when she was eleven she was only crawling because of her weight.
Numerous health problems
At that time she received the diagnosis "Elephantiasis". In this disease, a lymph congestion causes swelling of the body parts. She also suffered a stroke and became bedridden. Her right arm and leg were paralyzed, she could not speak.
The Egyptian developed various obesity-related conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, gout and respiratory failure during sleep.
In the Indian metropolis, the Egyptian woman managed to lose 100 kilograms through a liquid diet diet until her gastric bypass was given in early March.
330 kilos in three months
According to a report in the Times of India, the Egyptian woman managed to lose about 330 kilos in the less than three months since arriving in Mumbai.
On Thursday, the now 170 kg woman was transferred to the Bhurjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi, where she is now undergoing physiotherapy for a year.
"Eman will certainly miss me the way I miss her," said her attending physician at Saifee Hospital in Mumbai. Muffazal Lakdawala.
"My only fear was if she would return. There are two references in the medical literature to patients in their size who underwent surgery, one of whom died immediately after the operation. " Lakdawala. Eman's treatment could be considered a "medical miracle".
Not satisfied with the treatment
However, according to media reports, Abd al-Ati's family had recently been dissatisfied with treatment in Mumbai. As her sister Shaimaa Selim said, the family asked for "help" in the Emirates because of "lack of progress".
The Minister of Health of the Indian State of Maharashtra, dr. Deepak Sawant, in connection with the controversy over the criticism of the Egyptian family, had spoken out in favor of establishing guidelines for foreign patients coming to India for medical treatment.
"Private hospitals bring patients to India for treatment, but when it gets bitter between them, it's the doctors who are in trouble," the minister said, according to a report by the Hindustan Times. (Ad)