World’s heaviest teenager walks after many years

Khaled Mohsen Al Shaeri, now aged 24, from Saudi Arabia, weighed an incredible 610kg (1,345lbs) at his heaviest. He has now successfully lost 320kg (700lbs) following an intensive hospital fitness routine.
Doctors who treated him the capital Riyadh said Shaeri has shed more than two thirds of his weight and that he is still on a health programme to lose more. And now all his hard work was not in vain after Shaeri achieved an incredible milestone in his recovery - a video has been posted online showing him walking with the help of a Zimmer frame.

In 2013, he weighed 1,345 pounds when he was taken by medical helicopter to King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh, the capital of Saudia Arabia, for treatment at the request of the late King Abdullah. During that move, Khaled had to be transported by special crane ordered from the United States that required nearly 30 medical staff members and civil defense employees to assist.