An Egyptian believed to be the world’s heaviest woman at 78st has been flown to Mumbai for lifesaving surgery.

Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, who has been unable to leave her house for 25 years, arrived in a specially modified Airbus early this morning.

To prepare her for the flight, doctors spent the last ten days optimising the conditions to make the 36-year-old’s journey more comfortable.

Eman was lifted by a crane into Saifee Hospital where she will undergo weight reduction surgery, according to Hindustan Times.

As a child she was diagnosed with elephantiasis, a condition that causes the limbs to swell.

But after a stroke she was left bedridden, which led to diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension and sleep apnoea.

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Eman is believed to now weigh 78st, and if this is confirmed by doctors she will beat Pauline Potter from the US, who weighs 46st.

She will undergo Bariatric surgery, a stomach shrinking bypass procedure.

Beforehand, doctors will run a number of tests to see what is causing the huge weight gain.

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courtesy of METRO

by Simon Robb

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