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Feb 14th, 2017

Jenn Gidman, Newser staff 9:37 a.m. ET Feb. 14, 2017

An image of Egyptian national Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, who weighs around 1,100 pounds, is displayed at a press conference attended by her Indian bariatric surgeon Muffazal Lakdawala in Mumbai. Abd El Aty, 36, believed to be the world's heaviest woman, will undergo weight reduction surgery in India after an intervention from the country's foreign minister ensured her a visa.(Photo: Indranil Murkerhjee, AFP/Getty Images)

(NEWSER) It took two months of preparation and could take more than four years of treatment, but doctors are determined to help the person believed to bethe world's heaviest womansurvive.

TheTimes of Indiareports that Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty was flown Saturday from her home in Egypt to Mumbai, India, where in March she'll undergo a weight-loss surgery calledsleeve gastrectomy, which reduces the stomach to a fraction of its size. In the interim, medical staff hope to spur Abd El Aty whose family thinks she weighs more than 1,100 pounds and who suffers from a litany of conditions, including Type 2 diabetes, hypothyroidism, and hypertension to lose more than 100 pounds beforehand by feeding her a protein-heavy diet and giving her meds to help curb water retention.

It wasn't an easy endeavor to transport Abd El Aty, who theHindustan Timessays is 36, to India, a trip that ran around $125,000 and required her to leave her home for the first time in a quarter-century.

TheTimesand theHindudescribe the arduous process, which involved flying her via cargo plane from Alexandria to Mumbai, then transporting her from the airport in a custom-modified truck to Saifee Hospital, into which she was lowered by crane.

After her eventual surgery, Abd El Aty will still follow a years-long regimen, including more operations and specialized diet plans, to continue losing weight while doctors try to figure out what caused her obesity in the first place.

"If it is [a] genetic abnormality, medicines can help," says the bariatric surgeon who's been lobbying to get her treatment.

(The onetimeheaviest man in the world died at age 48.)

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