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Thursday October 28, 2010

300kg man vows to lose weight

By WINNIE YEOH
winnie@thestar.com.my

GEORGE TOWN: The 300kg unemployed man who had to be carried by 10 men after falling in his bathroom has vowed to shed weight once out of hospital. M. Balaji, 43, was still in pain when met at Penang Hospital, where he is undergoing treatment for a fractured pelvis. “Aduh, sangat sakit, I tak boleh tahanlah (I’m in great pain, I can’t stand it),” moaned Balaji, who also suffers from hypertension and diabetes.



In pain: Balaji recuperating at the Penang Hospital yesterday. With him is his mother M. Rajasundi, 60.

Ironically, the obese man said he used to work in the hospital for six years as a guard. “I was dismissed in 2001 after I was sick for a week. After my dismissal, I went to lodge a complaint with the Labour Department and fell while walking down the stairs,” he recalled. He said he fell again in 2005 at the courthouse stairway while climbing up for the hearing of his dismissal case, and injured his hip badly. “The court granted me compensation of 50 months’ salary which totalled RM33,000, but I only got RM13,000,” he said. Balaji receives RM500 monthly from the state Welfare Department.