Mexico: Doctors in Mexico have set a date for the world’s heaviest man to undergo gastric bypass surgery, the media reported on Wednesday.
Patient Juan Pedro Franco, who once weighed more than half a ton at 595 kilos, has been on a three-month diet to prepare for the operation on May 9, Xinhua news agency reported.
“He has lost nearly 30 per cent of his initial weight, so he is ready to undergo (the) bariatric surgery,” doctor, Jose Antonio Castaneda Cruz, told the media.
Franco, 32, first made headlines in November when he was admitted to the clinic after making the trip via a specially-adapted van to the western city of Guadalajara, Jalisco.