Mumbai, May 4: Egyptian national Eman Ahmed, who lost about 330 kilograms after undergoing weight-loss surgery in Mumbai's Saifee hospital, on Thursday left for the United Arab Emirates for long-term treatment.
Eman Ahmed, who weighed more than 500 kilograms when she was flown to Mumbai for treatment in February, was reportedly the world's heaviest woman.
The 37-year-old was discharged from the Mumbai hospital around 12.40pm for further treatment in the UAE, bariatric surgeon Muffazal Lakdawala said.
A green corridor was created for transporting Eman from Saifee Hospital to Gate No. 5 of Terminal 2 at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International airport in Mumbai.
Doctors who reduced the size of her stomach to help her lose weight said on Thursday her treatment would continue at a hospital in Abu Dhabi.
Eman has lymphedema, a condition that causes body tissue to swell. She had a stroke when she was 11 after which her weight gradually increased.
Eman's sister Shaimaa in an online video last month had alleged that she was not receiving proper treatment at the privately-owned hospital in South Mumbai.
Refuting the allegations, Aparna Bhaskar, section chief of bariatric surgery at Saifee Hospital, had said that Shaimaa may be criticising the doctors to extend her sister's stay at the hospital.
Lakdawala too had denied the charge.
Eman, a resident of Alexandria in Egypt, had not stepped out of her house for more than two decades due to her obese condition followed by a stroke that left her paralysed on one side a year ago.
It was Shaimaa, who learnt about Lakdawala and his expertise in bariatric surgeries and approached him for help early this year.
"It took almost a month for me to form a team of doctors, chalk out a detailed plan for her treatment and then we decided to get her here. Every treatment plan, method was debated with great detail," Dr Lakdawala said on Thursday.
In a blog, Lakdawala said on Thursday that Eman's sister has been promised by Burjeel Hospital officials that "Eman will be able to stand and walk".
The doctor said that Shaimaa insisted she had wanted the hospital (Saifee) to keep Eman till she could walk and the management said that was not possible because of the advice we have received from one the foremost orthopaedic surgeons in the country.
"Shaimaa then said she has been promised by Burjeel Hospital officials that Eman will be able to stand and walk soon. We told her we would not over-promise and we would not put the patient at risk. This is the crux of her issue with the Indian doctors and hospital," he said in the blog.
Eman underwent bariatric surgery in March in which doctors reduced the size of her stomach by two-thirds, so as to reduce her food intake. Her genetic tests had showed that she has a rare gene mutation that cannot be cured through surgery.
A chartered aircraft took Ahmed and a team of nine doctors to Abu Dhabi.
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