Eman with Dr Muffazal Lakdawala and Dr Deepak Sawant, health minister, Maharashtra Photo: SaveEman
Egyptian woman Eman Ahmed, once the heaviest woman in the world today, left for Abu Dabi for further treatment.
Eman, who was admitted at Mumbai’s Saifee hospital in Feb, is 328 kilograms lighter now. She will now be treated by a team of doctors at Burjeel hospital in Abu Dabi.
The Mumbai police created a 20 kilometer -long green corridor from Saifee hospital to transfer Eman to the airport.
Eman underwent a psychoanalysis test around noon before leaving the hospital.
But there was some drama before she left Saifee hospital as the officials from the VPS Healthcare, the company which runs the hospital in Abu Dabi, refused to sign the discharge documents prepared by Saifee hospital, saying that latter doesn’t have any liability after Eman’s discharge. But the matter was reportedly resolved by Deepak Sawant, health minister, Maharashtra, who arrived in the hospital to sort out the issue.
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.
Eman will primarily be treated for neurological and physiological rehabilitation at Burjeel hospital.
In Mumbai, Eman has been treated by a team of bariatric surgeons, geneticists, endocrinologists, nephrologists and others in the last three months. Doctors may present Eman’s case as a study to a reputed medical journal.