A team of doctors carried out a five-hour operation on Saturday on 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who was shot in October and brought to Britain for treatment.
The procedures
carried out were cranial reconstruction, aimed at mending parts of her
skull with a titanium plate, and a cochlear implant designed to restore
hearing on her left side, which was damaged in the attack.
"Both operations were a success and Malala is now recovering in hospital," said a statement on Sunday from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, central England, where she is being treated.
The girl's
condition was described as stable and the statement said her medical
team were very pleased with the progress she has made. "She is awake and
talking to staff and members of her family," it added.
The attack on
Yousufzai, who was shot in the head at point blank range as she left
school in the Swat valley, drew widespread international condemnation.
She has become an
international symbol of resistance to the Taliban's efforts to deny
women education and other rights, and more than 250,000 people have
signed online petitions calling for her to be nominated for a Nobel
Peace Prize.
Yousufzai will now
continue recuperating at the Queen Elizabeth hospital, which has a
specialist unit where doctors have treated hundreds of soldiers wounded
in conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, the hospital statement said.
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