Your weight becoming an issue to study

In my two years of studying midwifery before I changed my degree to health promotion. There was one student within my class that got with-drawn from the midwifery degree due to her weight. And was told to lose the weight first and then she can return to continue and finish her degree. The student was doing her clinical at the hospital, when she dropped her pen and was unable to pick up the pen, her patient, the pregnant woman, picked up her pen for her. And this was reported to the midwife on duty to A.U.T