| BEFORE |
Paul scoffs three family-sized takeaways a night and wolfs down Sunday roasts like snacks. He has spent much of the past eight years in bed at his home in Ipswich, Suffolk. His care costs taxpayers an estimated £100,000 a year. And now he needs drastic stomach surgery to stop him eating and keep him alive — at a cost of £20,000 to the NHS. But first health chiefs have to tackle the problem of transporting Paul to a specialist hospital 152 miles from his home.The even considered using an RAF Chinook HELICOPTER to airlift him to the unit in Chichester, West Sussex. Pipped . . . Manuel after diet.They have ruled out that option and Paul will now travel in a five-ton ambulance specially built for obese people at a cost of £90,000. An NHS Suffolk spokesman said: "This man is very ill and this is life-saving surgery. "The nature of his illness is psychological and the NHS has a duty to help him. "He is in a very fragile state and needs help. We are exploring all options for transporting him from his home to hospital but we have now ruled out an airlift.
"The most important aspect of Transporting him is preserving his dignity and looking after his safety. "We have not had anything like this before." Susie Squire, of the Taxpayers' Alliance, said: "While it is important to get this man the medical attention he needs, cost-effective methods must be used." Paul has battled a compulsive eating disorder most of his adult life. His widowed mother Janet looked after him but she died six weeks ago at 76. He now has two carers treating him. In 2002 a forklift truck had to be used to transport Paul from his bed and into hospital.
source: www.thesun.co.uk
| AFTER THE SURGERY |
A Suffolk man who lost a life-changing 40 stone - more than half his former body weight - now needs an operation to remove excess skin.It is more than two years since Paul Mason, from Ipswich, was branded the world's fattest man on the front page of The Sun newspaper when he weighed 70 stone (444kg).Then he had gastric bypass Surgery which saved his life.
SOURCE: www.bbcnews.com
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