Mumbai: After two months of preparations, the world's heaviest woman - Eman Ahmed from Egypt who weighs over 500kg with a girth of five feet - flew into Mumbai on Saturday for medical treatment that could span over four years. The cost of moving Eman from her home in Alexandria into a cargo plane, loading her onto amini-truck at Mumbai airport and then using a crane to slide her customised bed into a specially prepared room on the first floor of Saifee Hospital on Charni Road has come to Rs 83 lakh.
"We have just paid Rs 83 lakh for the logistics and will collect another Rs 1 crore," said Dr Muffazal Lakdawala, the bariatric surgeon who has spearheaded the Save Eman campaign. Her treatment is being crowdfunded. But the wait isn't yet over for Eman, who left home after 25 years and her bed after 13. Dr Lakdawala said, "The earliest we may operate on her is after four weeks.''
Doctors, who have already done a battery of tests on her, will over the next month work on reducing water-retention issues using medicines and a protein-rich diet. "We should be able to cut down 50-60 kg with this alone,'' said Dr Lakdawala. Incidentally, doctors aren't yet sure if Eman weighs 500 kg or more. "She was weighed five years back and was 330 kg then. Her sister says she is now double the size,'' said the doctor.
Even the surgery in March will only be the beginning of a long weight-reduction exercise. As her doctor puts it, "We have worked out a four-year plan for her.'' The plan includes at least two operations, diet plans and physiotherapy sessions. After the surgery, Eman could lose around 100 kilos within the six months that she will spend in Mumbai.
12/02/17 Malathy Iyer/Times of India
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"We have just paid Rs 83 lakh for the logistics and will collect another Rs 1 crore," said Dr Muffazal Lakdawala, the bariatric surgeon who has spearheaded the Save Eman campaign. Her treatment is being crowdfunded. But the wait isn't yet over for Eman, who left home after 25 years and her bed after 13. Dr Lakdawala said, "The earliest we may operate on her is after four weeks.''
Doctors, who have already done a battery of tests on her, will over the next month work on reducing water-retention issues using medicines and a protein-rich diet. "We should be able to cut down 50-60 kg with this alone,'' said Dr Lakdawala. Incidentally, doctors aren't yet sure if Eman weighs 500 kg or more. "She was weighed five years back and was 330 kg then. Her sister says she is now double the size,'' said the doctor.
Even the surgery in March will only be the beginning of a long weight-reduction exercise. As her doctor puts it, "We have worked out a four-year plan for her.'' The plan includes at least two operations, diet plans and physiotherapy sessions. After the surgery, Eman could lose around 100 kilos within the six months that she will spend in Mumbai.
12/02/17 Malathy Iyer/Times of India
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