World’s ‘Heaviest Woman’ Eman Ahmed Dies in Abu Dhabi at Age 37
Abu Dhabi: Eman Ahmed, the world’s heaviest woman who underwent a weight-loss surgery in Mumbai earlier this year, passed away in Abu Dhabi on Monday morning at 4.35 am, just a week after celebrating her 37th birthday. Officials from the Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi confirmed the news, adding that numerous co-morbid conditions including heart diseases and kidney dysfunction resulted in her death.
“She had been under the supervision of a medical team of over 20 doctors from different specialities who were managing her medical condition from the time she arrived in the UAE. Our prayers and heartfelt condolences go out to her family,” said the hospital. Ahmed, a resident of Alexandria, Egypt, was brought to Mumbai’s Saifee Hospital for weight-loss treatment and transferred to Burjeel Hospital on May 4 after spending three months in Mumbai.
The 37-year-old weighed 504 kg when she arrived in Mumbai on February 11, 2017 and considered the world’s heaviest woman. Doctors at Saifee said the bariatric surgery and diet regime they gave Ahmed helped her lose 300kg. Previously, doctors had shared videos of her recovery, claiming that she was healing three times faster than they had planned.
Dr. Yassin El Shahat, chief medical officer of Abu Dhabi based Burjeel Hospital had said by the end of stage two of her treatment, Eman will feed herself by mouth and use an electric wheelchair after achieving a reasonable weight loss by strict diet regimen. Eman had lost about 330 kilograms after undergoing weight-loss surgery in Mumbai’s Saifee hospital. She had left for the United Arab Emirates for long-term treatment in May.
Not a word from her sister who fought tooth and nail with the treating folks in India.
Obviously the patient did not get the benefit of the UAE treatment (free) without signing contract under super-strict UAE laws, where the judgments are super-fast as well.
What the public will never know is why she died within a week of celebrating her 37th birthday with her family.
It is well-known that Egyptians celebrate birthdays with lots and lots of sugary/fatty food. Of course, there is no way to know how this particular birthday was celebrated.
But major problems erupted in India when the sister of the patient fed the latter food through the mouth despite the strict warning against it by the Indian doctors.