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Malala will need reconstructive surgery: hospital director
2012-10-18
[Dawn] Malala Yousufzai is making progress in a British hospital, doctors said on Tuesday, as police turned away visitors claiming to be relatives.

The 14-year-old girl, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in Mingora last week, was in a stable condition on her first full day in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham after being flown to the city in central England in an air ambulance.

The hospital's medical director David Rosser said she had had a "comfortable night".

"We are very pleased with the progress she's made so far," he told news hounds.

"She is showing every sign of being every bit as strong as we've been led to believe.

"Malala will need reconstructive surgery and we have international experts in that field."

He said doctors at the highly specialised hospital -- where British service personnel maimed in Afghanistan are treated -- were beginning to plan for the complex procedures but they would not be carried out in the coming days.

Malala has been assessed by clinicians from the neurosurgery, imaging, trauma and therapy departments, though "very specialist teams" who may become involved further down the line are yet to perform detailed assessments on her injuries, Mr Rosser added.

The teenager had a bullet removed from her skull last week.

Given that she was targeted for liquidation by a Taliban gunman, security measures are in place at the hospital.

Mr Rosser said there had been some "irritating incidents" overnight in which people "claiming to be members of Malala's family -- which we don't believe to be true" had turned up.

A West Midlands Police front man said two "well-wishers" were questioned by officers who took their details and turned them away.
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