ISLAMABAD, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The reportedly heaviest man of Pakistan was shifted to a hospital in the country's eastern city of Lahore for his treatment on Tuesday, local media reported.
According to the reports, a group of civilian and army rescue teams transferred the obese man Noor Hassan with over 330 kilograms of weight from Sadiqabad district of eastern Punjab province with a special military helicopter.
Pakistani Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa made special arrangements for Hassan's transfer and treatment after he appealed to the army chief for help.
Hassan, who is unable to move freely due to overweight and other medical complications, will get treatment, including laparoscopic surgery, at the hospital in Lahore.
The rescue teams had to break the wall of his house to take him outside as he was too big to pass through the main gate of his house, the reports said.
Local media reports termed Hassan as the heaviest man in Pakistan, but there is no official confirmation about this.
Earlier in 2017, Pakistan's most obese person with a weight of 360 kilograms went through laparoscopic surgery and succeeded to decrease his weight below 200 kilograms.
According to a survey report released by the Pakistan Endocrine Society last year, 29 percent of the Pakistani population is overweight, out of which 51 percent are categorized in the obesity class.
