The 37-year old Egyptian woman weighed 1,102 pounds (500 kg), her family reported, prior to undergoing weight reduction surgery at Saifee Hospital in Mumbai in March.

All signs looked positive immediately following the surgery for Eman, who had lost more than 200 pounds prior to the operation.

“She is very happy, she started dancing in her bed,” Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala, the surgeon who performed her laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy operation, told CNN in March. “Her smile has come back.” The surgery involves removing part of the stomach so that only a “sleeve,” roughly the size and shape of a banana, is left behind, along with the muscle that controls emptying food into the intestine.

Eman overcame a number of hurdles to reach what her family had hoped to be a life-saving surgery in Mumbai, including an initial refusal to grant her a visa because of her inability to get to the embassy in person. After surmounting that problem with the help of an Indian minister, she then faced the difficulty of boarding an airplane.

Egypt Air specially adapted a cargo plane to transport her to India.

Following the surgery, Lakdawala said her kidney function had improved.

“She has done well post-surgery,” he told CNN in March. At that time, he intended for her to lose another 155 to 175 pounds (70 to 80 kg) within the next couple of months. The plan was to then send her home to Egypt and schedule a second surgery for next year.

Eman was later transferred to Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi. There, her condition was managed by a medical team of more than 20 doctors in different specialties.

However, her heart and kidneys coul d no longer function.

Her family expressed appreciation for the care provided by Burjeel Hospital and the support of the people of the UAE, according to the hospital statement. “Our prayers and heartfelt condolences go out to her family,” Burjeel Hospital staff said in the statement.



It is easy to conclude that people are overweight due to overeating, but this may not really be so. Some like Eman really have hormonal or genetic conditions which lead to obesity from childhood. According to a former “world’s heaviest’ Manuel Uribe who died at age 48 years, “People think that I can eat a whole cow but it’s not just overeating, it’s also a hormonal problem.”

Persons with obesity are predisposed to diabetes and high blood pressure which are the major causes of kidney disease and death. The risk of chronic kidney disease triples with morbid obesity. The impact of massive weight gain on the heart and kidneys may explain why some morbidly obese die in their forties. Therefore, early interventions may be needed to prevent serious complications.

What a loss

1person 500kg....

10 bags of cement ......chai

I pity the pall bearers wen go carry her coffin. Abi na crane or towing van dem go use.