'World's heaviest' woman Eman Ahmed dies in Abu Dhabi, aged 37 [Update Post #10]

[karthikc]

MUMBAI: Egypt's Eman Ahmed may soon shed the tag of being the world's heaviest woman after having lost over 120kg in less than a month.
The doctors at Saifee Hospital, who are awaiting her gene test report, said a bariatric surgery may still be necessary . Ahmed, who had left her home in Alexandria after 25 years and airlifted to Mumbai, has showed remarkable improvement despite suffering multiple strokes in between. Doctors are hoping to find out the reason behind the strokes by next month when she is likely to fit into an MRI machine. The medical team is largely working with portable x-rays currently .

The hospital has passed the primary hurdle of tracking her kilos by installing a new bed fitted with its own weighing machine. Her sur geon Dr Muffazal Lakdawala said that she has entered the league of "300 plus kilos", much better from her original weight of 498kg. "We are expecting her genetic report by the end of this week. A surgery may follow any time after that," he said.

The difficulty in swallowing food had reduced notably as she no longer coughs it out. There is clarity in her speech. Rigorous physiotherapy sessions have also meant that she can even hold her toes and come up on her own.
"It is all because the body fluid has gone down. Losing the next 100kg however won't be easy as the medicines have mostly done their job," Lakdawala said.

An outpouring of support has helped the team to raise nearly Rs 60 lakh.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...0kg-ahead-of-surgery/articleshow/57505601.cms

 

[srh]

MUMBAI: Egypt's Eman Ahmed may soon shed the tag of being the world's heaviest woman after having lost over 120kg in less than a month.
The doctors at Saifee Hospital, who are awaiting her gene test report, said a bariatric surgery may still be necessary . Ahmed, who had left her home in Alexandria after 25 years and airlifted to Mumbai, has showed remarkable improvement despite suffering multiple strokes in between. Doctors are hoping to find out the reason behind the strokes by next month when she is likely to fit into an MRI machine. The medical team is largely working with portable x-rays currently .

The hospital has passed the primary hurdle of tracking her kilos by installing a new bed fitted with its own weighing machine. Her sur geon Dr Muffazal Lakdawala said that she has entered the league of "300 plus kilos", much better from her original weight of 498kg. "We are expecting her genetic report by the end of this week. A surgery may follow any time after that," he said.

The difficulty in swallowing food had reduced notably as she no longer coughs it out. There is clarity in her speech. Rigorous physiotherapy sessions have also meant that she can even hold her toes and come up on her own.
"It is all because the body fluid has gone down. Losing the next 100kg however won't be easy as the medicines have mostly done their job," Lakdawala said.

An outpouring of support has helped the team to raise nearly Rs 60 lakh.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...0kg-ahead-of-surgery/articleshow/57505601.cms

There is a Saifee Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan too. Strange.

 

[karthikc]

There is a Saifee Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan too. Strange.

Oh..ok.

 

[karthikc]

Close to 500 kg is insane..must be genetic issue? [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION]

 

[Gabbar Singh]

There is a Saifee Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan too. Strange.

The Indian one was founded by and is run by the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community and the hospital is named after their former leader Taher Saifuddin. The Karachi one probably is as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taher_Saifuddin

 

[srh]

The Indian one was founded by and is run by the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community and the hospital is named after their former leader Taher Saifuddin. The Karachi one probably is as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taher_Saifuddin

Yes it is in North Nazimabad area of Karachi which has considerable Bohra and Agha Khani guys

 

[Gabbar Singh]

This whole case has turned extremely nasty with the medical team and the family of the lady in question throwing public insults at each other.

Dr Aparna Govil Bhasker, section chief of Bariatric Surgery at the Saifee Hospital who was one of the core team of doctors treating Eman Ahmed has "resigned". Bhasker took to Facebook to make the announcement, citing "uncaring relatives" as the reason behind the move.

"Eman's case is an example of the worst kind of assault that a patient's family can do to a doctor. It will be an example for patients to learn how to use the hospital system to your advantage by hook or by crook. It will be an example to follow for uncaring relatives that one can just dump their sister in a hospital and have the best time of their life. It will be an example for young doctors that they must never ever go out of their way to help someone and save a life because it can backfire badly," she says in the post.

Bhasker was one of the doctors who travelled to Alexandria to bring Eman to Mumbai. She was one of the doctors who was tasked with stabilizing Eman during the journey and spoke of the challenge to the media in the first few days that Eman came to Mumbai.

The announcement comes after Eman's sister Shaimaa Selim accused Dr Mufazzal Lakdawala and his team of being "liars". Shaimaa has claimed that Eman is very critical and that she hasn't lost 250 kgs as the doctor has claimed.

Saifee hospital has asked Shaimaa to take Eman back to Egypt in two weeks but Shaimaa has hit back at the hospital management and the doctors saying that they have not delivered on the promise to make Eman walk.

"What her sister has done is worse than physically assaulting a doctor. She has broken the bond of trust between doctors and patients. I am appalled at the irony that today when Eman’s health is the best that it has ever been in last 25 years, her sister chooses to go down this path," Bhasker has said in her emotional post.

Bhasker is also part of the Dr Lakdawala's CODS clinic in Gamdevi.

http://www.dnaindia.com/health/repo...med-resigns-blames-uncaring-relatives-2415312

 

[Gabbar Singh]

In the end she lost a lot of weight but no one came out of this smelling of roses - the patient's family came across as rude and ungrateful, the medical team milked this case for all the publicity they could get and threw doctor-patient confidentiality out the window and the indian media treated the poor woman like a circus animal.

An Egyptian woman believed to be the heaviest in the world has left hospital in India after losing more than 51 stone (324kg) thanks to weight-loss surgery.

Eman Ahmed, 36, weighed more than 78 stone (495kg) when she was operated on in Mumbai in March, but doctors say that she is down to just under 28 stone (176kg).

http://news.sky.com/story/worlds-he...es-hospital-after-record-weight-loss-10863007

 

[Gabbar Singh]

She has died.

An Egyptian woman once believed to be the world's heaviest has died in the United Arab Emirates.

Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty had travelled to India earlier this year for bariatric weight loss surgery.

Local media reported that she had lost more than 300kg (660lb) of her 500kg but had died from complications from other health conditions.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-middle-east-41384050

 

[UN talkz]

'World's heaviest' woman Eman Ahmed dies in Abu Dhabi, aged 37

An Egyptian once believed to be the heaviest woman in the world has died of heart and kidney failure, aged 37.

Eman Ahmed, who weighed more than 78 stone (500kg) at her heaviest, had been receiving treatment for several months following an operation in March.

She first had surgery in Mumbai, losing about 50 stone (317kg) after being transported from Egypt on a specially adapted cargo plane following a tweet to India's foreign minister pleading for help.

Prior to the operation she had not left her home in 25 years.

Following the procedure, which was paid for through a crowdsourcing campaign, she managed to reduce her weight to just under 28 stone (176kg).

But despite the apparent success of the operation, her sister, Shaimaa Selim, accused staff of lying about how much weight Ms Ahmed had lost, prompting several doctors to resign.

She later appeared to change her stance, saying: "Thank you to everyone…people in India. Thank you."
In May, Ms Ahmed was transported to Abu Dhabi for further operations . She was taken by air ambulance on a hydraulic stretcher specially imported from Italy, via a 12-mile (20km) corridor created by Mumbai authorities to move her from the hospital to the airport.

For the last four months of her life, a team of more than 20 doctors had been caring for her at the Burjeel Hospital, where it was reported staff were hoping to help her walk again.

She suffered from elephantiasis, a condition that causes body tissue to swell, and had a stroke at the age of 11, her family said.

Ms Selim said Ms Ahmed, who celebrated her birthday last month, had dreamed of one day being able to return to the beach in her hometown of Alexandria.

http://news.sky.com/story/worlds-heaviest-woman-eman-ahmed-dies-in-abu-dhabi-aged-37-11052903

 

[karthikc]

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