Re: Malala Yousufzai attacked
I think the media are exaggerating things here. Why are they always negative? Ofcourse health facilities (esp. post operative or after care) are better in England but **Pakistani military doctors are the ones who actually saved Malala’s life by removing the bullet in time from her head. **Luckily for her the bullet just grazed the surface of the brain but did not penetrate it.
Thank god she has regained consciousness but the girl is still very sick and barely able to communicate by writing at present. She has developed sepsis/infection which is probably related to bullet track. They are planning reconstructive surgery after 3-4 weeks once the infection has cleared up
BBC News - Malala Yousafzai: Pakistan girl ‘standing with help’
“Dr Rosser said that she was “doing very well” and reported that she was eager for details about her condition to be shared more widely. “Malala is now well enough… she is happy, in fact, keen for us to share quite a lot of clinical detail with you,” he said.
“She’s communicating very freely, she’s writing.”
Skull reconstruction But he reiterated an earlier warning that she was “not out of the woods” yet.
“She is still showing some signs of infection, which is probably related to the bullet track. [There is] some infection in the bullet track, which is our key source of concern,” he told reporters.
In terms of her future care, the specialist teams looking after her estimate she will need a few weeks to rehabilitate and ensure the infection clears up.”