沙特近610公斤男子被空運醫院救治

A Saudi man weighing 1,345 pounds was airlifted to a hospital in Riyadh Monday, Reuters reports, a process that required a forklift and the partial demolition of his house.

Khalid Mohsin Shaeri has been unable to leave his bedroom for the past two and a half years. Six months ago, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah asked for Khalid to be taken to the hospital, but treatment had to wait until a special bed was made for him in the United States, according to Reuters.

The 20-year-old patient was taken to King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh on Monday after the Saudi King arranged for his special air transportation from the southern city of Jazan.

Multiple Saudi government organizations coordinated Shaeri's evacuation after part of his home was demolished so he could be brought down from the second floor. A forklift was used to transfer him to an ambulance which took him to a local airport in Jazan. An aircraft then flew him to Riyadh.

"We have been waiting for this moment for a long time," Naser Makke, the patient's cousin, told Reuters.

"The King - may God protect him and give him the long life - had given his instructions to the ministry of health to do all the arrangements to transfer the patient for treatment in a safe way."

According to Reuters, Shaeri was reported to have a brother and sister who are also overweight, but able to walk.

Local media reported that the Saudi Health Ministry has already dealt with other morbidly obese patients this year, including two siblings who weighed 661 pounds and 771 pounds respectively.據英國媒體報道，沙特政府多部門聯動，在8月19日將一名體重1345磅（約610公斤）、不能下牀走路的沙特男子空運到首都利雅得治療。

這名沙特男子叫哈立德·穆赫辛·沙伊裏，現年20歲。由於身體過於肥胖，過去兩年半他一直不能離開臥室。 爲了讓哈立德從二樓下來，有關人員拆除了哈立德的部分房屋，用叉車將他轉移到救護車上，然後送他到吉贊當地機場。在多個政府部門的配合下，哈立德終於被空運到了利雅得的法赫德國王醫療城。

哈立德的表弟納賽爾接受採訪說：“我們等待這個時刻很久了。阿卜杜拉國王已經下了命令，要求衛生部盡一切努力將患者安全送到醫院接受治療。” 哈立德的弟弟和妹妹也已超重，不過兩人還能走路。

6個月前，沙特國王阿卜杜拉就要求將他送到醫院治療，不過醫院當時沒有適合他的牀，如今從美國爲其定製的牀已經到位，治療工作開始啓動。

當地媒體報道說，沙特衛生部今年已經幫助了多名病態肥胖患者接受治療，包括兩個體重分別爲661磅（約合300公斤）和771磅（約合350公斤）的兄妹。