Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, the worlds fattest woman will travel from her home in Egypt this weekend to a special facility in Mumbai, India, for life-saving weight reduction surgery.
Abd El Aty, 36, who has not left her home in more than 25 years, will fly on a specially designed Airbus plane, custom modified to help her 1,092 pound body make the international journey.
A team of ten people from the Saifee Hospital in Mumbai have been in Egypt for several weeks, helping to prepare the woman for the journey, and to make the transition from home to plane to hospital as comfortable as possible.
The womans family says the surgery, which doctors offered to do free of charge, is likely the only option to save Abd El Atys life. She has been incredibly obese since birth, when her family says she was diagnosed with elephantiasis, an incurable condition that swells her limbs and renders her immobile.
In childhood, Abd El Aty suffered a stroke, which set off a domino effect of ailments. She has hypertension, high blood pressure, diabetes and sleep apnea, all of which could prove fatal.
Abd El Atys family has been trying for years to get a visa to India and convince an airline to fly Eman to the specialty bariatric surgery clinic in Mumbai, which is supposed to be one of the best in the world. Fearing that she might die on the way, airlines repeatedly turned the family down, until doctors at the clinic said theyd sponsor herjourney.
Once in Mumbai, Eman will have part of her stomach removed, hopefully triggering a major weight loss. Eman will leave Egypt this weekend and arrive in India on Monday.
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