AN Egyptian, dubbed the world’s heaviest woman, has left her home for the first time in 25 years for life-saving surgery. Eman Ahmed, 36, who tips the scales at 495kg, was flown from her home in Alexandria on a specially modified cargo plane to India to undergo a series of operations to help her lose weight.
Eman was greeted by a team of doctors who will perform surgery to shrink her stomach to save her life.The wall of her room reportedly had to be knocked down to bring her out before she was was lifted out of her bed by a crane and placed in an Egypt Air cargo plane.After a seven-hour long flight, she was placed in a mini-truck at Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport and transported to Saifee Hospital in Mumbai in western India, where she will undergo treatment.
