Saudi Arabia’s fattest man has been airlifted to hospital for urgent weight-loss treatment following direct orders from King Abdullah.
Videos posted online on Tuesday showed 610kg Khalid Mohsin Shaeri, who had been bed-ridden for two years, being removed from his home by a civil defence crew using a forklift truck.
Part of Shaeri’s apartment had to be demolished so that the world’s heaviest living man could be transferred from his home in Jizan to King Fahd Medical City in the capital Riyadh. His treatment, which has been paid for by the Saudi king, will include dietary and physical programmes.
Shaeri was meant to be transferred to the US for treatment six months ago, but plans stalled due to the unavailability of a suitable hospital bed.
“It is really a humanitarian gesture from the king to order the transfer and treatment of the patient,” Saudi minister of health Dr Abdullah Al Rabeeah was quoted as saying by the Saudi Gazette newspaper.
Shaeri is the second heaviest person ever recorded. American Jon Brower Minnoch, who weighed at 635 kg at his peak, died in 1983. The previous living record holder is Mexican Manuel Uribe, who is said to weigh 597 kg.
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