ASIA?S FATTEST CUTS FLAB WITH SOME HELP FROM CITY DOCTOR

Mumbai: No doctor in China wanted to operate on 33-year-old Qin Fang, who weighed a challenging 285 kg. A fortnight after local newspapers carried Qin's weighty problem, authorities at the Nankai Hospital near Beijing called a Mumbai doctor to help the young man. "We are told he was Asia's heaviest man when we operated on him 10 days ago," announced Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala, relating how he was invited to China to place a gastric band around Qin's stomach. The Chinese man has since lost seven kg, Dr. Lakdawala said at a press conference held in L H Hiranandani Hospital, Powai, on Friday. The Hiranandani team was first asked to operate on a 25-year-old-woman who weighed 170 kg during the workshop. "The Chinese doctors said that they had so

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