A family from the Egyptian city of Alexandria turned to the public and doctors with a request to help their relative Iman Ahmad Abdulati, who spent most of her life at home due to her enormous body weight. Writes about this The Daily Mirror.
The 36-year-old woman weighs 500 kilograms and could die if she does not undergo urgent surgery at a hospital in Cairo.
According to the newspaper, Iman has not left home for 25 years. She never attended school. Her sister and mother help her to serve herself. As a child, Iman was diagnosed with elephantiasis (elephantiasis, that is, a malformation of the lymphatic system, sometimes of a parasitic nature, accompanied by hyperteca of various parts of the body, - approx. "Lenta.ru").
According to Abdulati's mother and sister, in her youth, the patient's condition was also strongly influenced by the stress after the death of her father. For many years they tried to control the disease, but now they hope for the participation of doctors, for which they turned to the media with their story.
The official title of the fattest woman of all time belongs to Carol Yager of the USA (544 kilograms), she died in 1994 at the age of 34. The most complete of the living is considered to be 36-year-old American Mayra Rosales (470 kilograms). Thus, Iman Ahmad Abdulati can be considered an unofficial weight record holder.
