610-kg Saudi man in hospital for treatment

A20-year-old Saudi man, weighing 610 kg, was forklifted out of his apartment and flown here for treatment. On orders from Saudi ruler King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, Khalid Mohsen Shaeri, suffering from extreme obesity, was forklifted from the second floor of an apartment building in Jazan, capital of Saudi Arabia's Jizan province, and flown here Monday for treatment, local media reported. Accompanied by a special medical team, the patient was taken from Riyadh air force base to the King Fahd Medical City (KFMC), where he was received by Abdulaziz AlHumaidhi, head of the transfer process, and Mahmoud Yamani, executive director general of KFMC.