Isabella Amaral's weight started to spiral out of control because of a massive tumour in her left leg, which she says left her immobilisedA morbidly obese 54-stone woman has pleaded for help from health chiefs to save her life.

Isabella Amaral's weight started to spiral out of control because of a massive tumour in her left leg, which she says weighs almost 8 stone.

The 30-year-old has accused medics of waiting for her to die and says nobody wants to take responsibility for operating on her because she "frightens doctors ".

Isabella, from Argentina, needs an urgent analysis of the huge lymphoma tumour, which she claims slowed her down and eventually immobilised her.However the government of Rosario in the Argentine province of Santa Fe, are involved in a dispute and are impeding her from being taken to hospital in an ambulance.

Isabella told local media: "They say it is impossible to move somebody of my weight in an ambulance, but I know it’s a lie because they have done it with other people in my condition, they are leaving me to die!"

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Isabella is unable to move from the bed and constantly needs care from her mother, two brothers and family friends, who help to bathe, feed her and keep her company day and night.

"I have no life. I breathe because the air is free, I need to be transferred immediately", she added in an interview.However the government of Rosario in the Argentine province of Santa Fe, are involved in a dispute and are impeding her from being taken to hospital in an ambulance.

Isabella told local media: "They say it is impossible to move somebody of my weight in an ambulance, but I know it’s a lie because they have done it with other people in my condition, they are leaving me to die!"

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Isabella is unable to move from the bed and constantly needs care from her mother, two brothers and family friends, who help to bathe, feed her and keep her company day and night.

"I have no life. I breathe because the air is free, I need to be transferred immediately", she added in an interview."I don’t want to be evaluated over the phone or from a photo. I don’t believe in the virtual stuff.

"The doctors who come to my house get scared, they don’t even want to look at me, but I want to live, I need my health."

The distraught young woman has told her story to the media in a bid to get the local government to change their minds and send an ambulance so she can be seen to.

She added: "I don’t want money or donations. I want the whole world to know that they are refusing me the possibility to be attended to like I should be.

"They are pushing me to my death and they are going to achieve it."