Doctors pleased with Malala’s progress

BIRMINGHAM: Doctors caring for Malala Yousafzai said Sunday they were pleased with her progress. Malala has been receiving treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for almost two weeks.

On Friday, Malala’s father Ziauddim Yousafzai reached Birmingham and told reporters the response in Pakistan to Malala’s shooting was a “turning point” for the country.

Mr. Yousafzai thanked doctors at the hospital, saying “ she (Malala) got the right treatment, at the right place, at the right time.”
Malala has received thousands of goodwill messages from around the world.

Doctors have said a bullet grazed her brain and came within centimetres of killing her, travelling through her head and neck before lodging in her left shoulder.

She requires reconstructive surgery, but she must first fight off an infection in the path of the bullet and recover her strength, which could take months.

Her skull will need reconstructing either by reinserting bone or using a titanium plate.