After two years of being bed-ridden due to acute obesity, eight-year-old Zoya Khan got a new lease on life on Saturday, when she underwent revised bariatric surgery. Khan, who weighs 39 kg, was operated on at MPCT Hospital of the Surana Group at Navi Mumbai, by a team of doctors comprising Dr Mohit Bhandari and Dr Mathias Fobi from the US. The ideal weight for an eight-year-old is 28 kg.

Dr Bhandari is said to have done the most bariatric surgeries in the Asia Pacific. Dr Fobi is an internationally renowned bariatric surgeon. MPCT doctors claim the revision bariatric surgery performed on Khan is a record as she is the youngest person in the world to undergo it. Khan was being treated at the Nair Hospital when a team of doctors from Surana hospitals contacted her family regarding the surgery.