Indian doctors defiant over Egyptian’s weight loss
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INDIAN doctors yesterday angrily rejected claims that they had lied about the amount of weight an Egyptian once believed to be the world’s heaviest woman had lost following surgery.
The sister of Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty alleged her sibling, who previously weighed 500 kilograms, had not shed half her weight as specialists at a Mumbai hospital had claimed.
“Today Eman weighs 171 kilos,” Muffazal Lakdawala, the doctor leading Abd El Aty’s treatment, said, adding that the claim made by her sister Shaimaa Selim in a social media video post was “complete hogwash.”
In videos provided last week by Saifee Hospital, where the 37-year-old had bariatric surgery last month, a visibly slimmer Abd El Aty could be seen sitting up while listening to music.
In an accompanying statement doctors said the woman, who had not left her home in Egypt’s Mediterranean port city of Alexandria for two decades until she arrived in India in February, had lost 250kg.
But in a video posted on Facebook and reported widely by Indian media yesterday, Selim accuses the hospital of lying, saying her sister had not lost as much weight as claimed.
“The pictures don’t lie, the pictures can’t lie,” Lakdawala said, suggesting that Selim had only raised complaints after doctors advised that Abd El Aty could soon leave India, where she has been receiving free treatment, to return to Egypt.
Abd El Aty’s family say that as a child she was diagnosed with elephantiasis, a condition that causes the limbs and other body parts to swell, leaving her almost immobile.
The Egyptian has suffered several strokes and faced a series of other serious ailments owing to her weight, including diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension and sleep deprivation.
Lakdawala said that there was not much more he could do for her in terms of further weight loss and she would need to see a specialist neurologist to help with her other ailments.
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