MUMBAI: 36-year-old Ms Eman Ahmed from Egypt’s Alexandria city who is identified as heaviest women in the world, today landed at Mumbai international airport at around 4 am with her sister Shaimaa Ahmed for weight reduction treatment at a local facility of bariatric surgeon Muffazal Lakdawala. She will be under observation for about a month before she undergoes surgery.

Ms Ahmed has not moved out of her house for 25 years. Transporting Eman to Mumbai was a challenging task. To prepare her for the flight, the team of doctors have been in Egypt for the last 10 days to optimise the conditions for her travel. She is at a high risk for a pulmonary embolism and hence has been put on blood thinners to try and minimise the chances of such an eventuality during her transfer. A special bed was created to transport. As a precautionary measure, the flight was furnished with all the equipment required in case of an emergency such as portable ventilator, portable defibrillator, oxygen cylinders, intubating laryngoscopes and other safety drugs. She was accompanied by Aparna Govil Bhasker, an Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgeon at Centre of Obesity and Digestive Surgery and Head of Department of Bariatric surgery at Saifee hospital, and Kamlesh Bohra, Senior Intensivist, Department of Critical and Intensive Care at Bora community run Saifee Hospital in Mumbai. She was transported by a fully equipped truck, which will be followed by an ambulance and a police escort to Saifee Hospital where a special room has been created for her.