Abd El Aty had not left her home in Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Alexandria for two decades until she arrived in India on February 11 for weight-loss surgery.-AFP
Mumbai (AFP) - The "world's heaviest woman" has shed half her weight -- around a quarter of a tonne -- in the two months she's been in India for treatment, doctors said.
Egyptian national Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty weighed 500 kilogrammes (1,100 pounds) when she arrived in Mumbai in February on a specially modified plane to undergo emergency weight-loss surgery.
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