330 kg lighter, Eman Ahmed leaves for Abu Dhabi

Mumbai: After a stay of around 83 days at Mumbai’s Saifee Hospital for weight-reduction treatment, Egyptian national Eman Ahmed (36) left in an EgyptAir cargo aircraft for Abu Dhabi around 4.15 pm for further treatment at VPS Healthcare’s Burjeel Hospital there. 

Ms Ahmed’s journey from the hospital to the city’s international airport, via a green corridor provided by the Mumbai traffic police, turned into a spectacle, with camera crews from the media tracking her ambulance’s every motion amid popping flashbulbs. 

Thanks to the green corridor, the ambulance reached the international airport at Sahar in Vile Parle in around 20 minutes instead of the usual 60 minutes, according to the traffic police’s joint commissioner of police Amitesh Kumar. 

A nine-member medical team from Burjeel Hospital accompanied Ms Ahmed for whom a special Italian stretcher and mobile bed was used. Ms Ahmed, who weighed around 500 kg at the time of her admission in Saifee Hospital, is around 330 kg lighter thanks to bariatric surgery and the liquid diet she has been on since February. Stating that the patient’s safety is a priority, VPS Healthcare CEO Dr Shajir Gaffer said, “She should be comfortable while travelling. We thank the ministry and consulate as well as the Mumbai police for their support.”