By IANS,
London : Doctors at the hospital in Britain where Pakistani teenaged rights activist Malala Yousafzai is being treated after a Taliban attack said they were hopeful she can recover.
The 14-year-old girl, who arrived in Birmingham Monday, had a bullet removed from her skull last week.
David Rosser, hospital medical director at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, told BBC that some British colleagues who had been in Pakistan believed Malala had “a chance of making a good recovery”.
“Clearly it would be inappropriate on every level, not least for her, to put her through all of this if there was no hope of decent recovery,” he said.
Doctors have carried out a series of tests on the teenager.
Malala was flown from Pakistan via the United Arab Emirates by an air ambulance, a week after she and two other schoolgirls were attacked as they returned home from school in Mingora in the Swat valley.
She became widely known as a campaigner for girls’ education in Pakistan after writing a diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban, when they banned girls from attending school.
Surgeons in Peshawar removed the bullet that had entered Malala’s skull.
Rosser said specialists at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital were “in a good position to treat her” because they had 10 years of experience in treating military casualties.
Malala’s condition was much the same as a “battle casualty from a physiological point of view”, he told BBC.
Once Malala recovers sufficiently, she will also need neurological help as well as treatment to repair or replace damaged bones in her skull.