World's heaviest man to undergo weight loss surgery

Doctors in Mexico are finally ready to operate on the World's heaviest man who has been confined to his bed for six years. Juan Pedro Franco, who once weighed more than half a ton at 595 kilos will undergo the gastric bypass surgery on the 9th of May, 2017.

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The 32-year-old, from Aguascalientes in Mexico,  has type 2 diabetes, and was initially told that he'd never walk again, is said to be almost as obese as Mexican man Manuel Uribe - who was once considered the world's fattest man before he died in 2014.