File photo of Eman
Eman Abdul Atti, dies on Monday morning due to an intestinal shock and kidney failure according to a statement by Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi, where she was undergoing treatment.
The Egyptian woman Eman, once the heaviest woman, was treated at the Mumbai Saifee hospital for around three months before she left for Abu Dabi for further treatment.
This what the Burjeel hospital said in a statement:
“The management of Burjeel Hospital is deeply saddened by the death of Eman Abdul Atti, the heaviest woman in the world.
Eman died on Monday, September 25, 2017 at 4:35am due to an intestinal shock and kidney failure. She was supervised by a team of more than 20 doctors from different disciplines who had successfully improved her health since she arrived in the UAE.
She breathed her last early in the morning.”
A team of nine specialists, including an intensivist, paramedics and nurses came from VPS healthcare to accompany Eman on her six hour journey to Abu Dhabi. A special hydraulic stretcher was brought from Italy for Eman.
In Mumbai, Eman was treated by a team of bariatric surgeons, geneticists, endocrinologists, nephrologists and others in the last three months.
Eman weighed 500 kilograms when she had been brought to India for a weight loss surgery.
After a stroke in her home vountry, her younger sister Shaimaa had started a social media campaign to get her medical help. It caught attention of Mumbai-based bariatric surgeon Muffazal Lakdawala who initiated a fund raising campaign to arrange money to fly Eman to India.
The Mumbai police had created a 20 kilometer -long green corridor from Saifee hospital to transfer Eman to the airport.
Eman was 328 kilograms lighter when she left India.