“At every 100 kilos the risks don’t just add up, they multiply,” Lakdawala accepts. The operation though, if and when it happens, is fraught with risk. With that letter, a chance at life also unfolded for Eman. ‘Write to the doctor in Mumbai,’ Dr Diaa suggested to Eman’s sister. Their modest means did not allow for much but Shaima’s determination led her to appeal to President Sisi last year, which drew media attention.Ī story on Eman by CNN Arabia caught the eye of a certain Dr Diaa in Saudi Arabia, who happened to know Muffazal Lakdawala. For Shaima, watching her sister live entombed in a room at their home in Alexandria, Egypt, was steadily becoming unbearable. Until this week, she could not even lift her hands.

For nearly two decades the 36-year-old, reported to be the world’s heaviest woman, has been lying flat on her bed, her waking moments spent staring at the ceiling. Her weight prevents her from even turning over. When Eman Ahmed Abdelaty’s sister Shaima got in touch with him last October through snail mail, the letter was addressed to, ‘Dr Muffazal Lakdawala, International Fatness Surgeon.’ Fat, or rather the excess of it, is a touchy issue at the celebrity bariatric surgeon’s clinic: Patients in denial who end up in his hands only when hit by a medical emergency, as in the case of this young stand up comic who was brought to the hospital by his mother “as he was flatlining.” Yet others who come to him suicidal, beset by acute shame and anger over their weight.Īt 500 kilos, Eman Ahmed does not have the option of being suicidal.

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