World’s fattest woman, 36, lifted out of her bedroom by crane and flown by a special cargo plane to have life-saving surgery

AN Egyptian, dubbed the world’s heaviest woman, has left her home for the first time in 25 years for life-saving surgery.

Eman Ahmed, 36, who tips the scales at 78 stone, was flown from her home in Alexandria on a specially modified cargo plane to India to undergo a series of operations to help her lose weight.

Eman Ahmed, who weighs 78 stone, has been bed-ridden at her home in Alexandria, Egypt, for 25 years earlier today, she arrived in Mumbai where she was greeted by a team of doctors who will perform surgery to shrink her stomach to save her life.

The wall of her room reportedly had to be knocked down to bring her out before she was was lifted out of her bed by a crane and placed in an Egypt Air cargo plane.

After a seven-hour long flight, she was placed in a mini-truck at Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport and transported to Saifee Hospital in Mumbai in western India, where she will undergo treatment

She was accompanied with her sister Shaimaa Ahmed and a team of doctors from the hospital.

An official from the hospital said: “Given the fact that she is so heavy and not moved for the last 25 years she is at a high risk for a pulmonary embolism and hence has been put on blood thinners to try and minimize the chances of such an eventuality during her transfer.”

Eman was born weighing nearly one stone and was diagnosed with elephantiasis- parasitic infection – which causes extreme swelling in a person’s limbs and arms.

By the time she turned 11, she was too heavy to support her weight standing up, and resorted to crawling in the house on her knees.