Saturday, October 20, 2012

Malala escaped certain death by centimetres, say doctors

London: Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban, has stood up with help for the first time but remains seriously ill, doctors treating her at a British hospital said on Friday.

She is unable to talk due to the breathing tube inserted into her windpipe but she can communicate by writing, said Dave Rosser, the medical director at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, central England.

The teenager escaped certain death by a matter of centimetres (inches), with the bullet grazing the edge of her brain, he revealed.

(Full story: NDTV; http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/malala-escaped-certain-death-by-centimetres-say-doctors-282094?v_recent_also_see)

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