Remember Eman? In Abu Dhabi she has food on her own for first time in 25 years
Eman Ahmed, an Egyptian woman who recently underwent weight-loss surgery in India, has fed herself for the first time in 25 years at a hospital in Abu Dhabi where she is admitted.
A team of twenty doctors at the Burjeel Hospital headed by Dr Nehad Halawa, is treating her. Doctors said that there has been significant improvements in Eman’s psychological condition.
The 36-year-old, who once weighed over 500 kg, is improving steadily and was seen smiling, watching television and communicating with visitors.
Ahmed was earlier admitted to Mumbai’s Saifee Hospital for a weight loss surgery and then was transferred to the Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi on May 4.
“I am praying to God that she is able to walk one day. She is clearly able to speak out names of our close family members,” says her younger sister Shaimaa Selim.
Eman was admitted in Burjeel hospital earlier this month after her sister sought medical assistance from VPS Healthcare following a clash with Saifee hospital in Mumbai where Eman underwent three month long treatment and a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy surgery.
According to Dr Yassin Al Shahat, chief medical officer at Burjeel hospital, Eman will undergo plastic surgery for redundant skin and corrective surgery for lower limbs deformity as a long term treatment. “She may require a possible aortic valve replacement,” Al Shahat said in a media statement.
She continues to undergo strict diet regime for weight loss although doctors did not divulge her current weight.
Halawa said Eman is now able to show some movement in lower limb that she has not displayed in last two years. “She is also able to sit without support for some time. She watches Arabic shows on TV to pass time,” he said.
Eman weighed an estimated 500 kgs when she was air lifted from Egypt to India for weight reduction treatment. In three months doctors at Saifee hospital claim her weight dipped to 170 kgs.
Due to constant physiotherapy, her rights limb movements are now gradually improving, Burjeel hospital doctors said.