Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, will undergo a fresh operation to have a Titanium plate fixed in her skull, doctors said on Wednesday.
In the next 10 days, Malala will undergo a three-hour procedure to attach a titanium plate to a large hole in her head and to implant a cochlear hearing device to replace her destroyed eardrum.
Doctors hope this would be the last operation that she will have to undergo.
The procedures, which will be carried out by the same surgeons who treat British soldiers injured in Afghanistan, will set the teenager on a road to recovery that will allow her to kick-start her work as a global advocate for girls’ education and to begin a relatively normal life in Birmingham.
In the next 10 days, Malala will undergo a three-hour procedure to attach a titanium plate to a large hole in her head and to implant a cochlear hearing device to replace her destroyed eardrum.
Doctors hope this would be the last operation that she will have to undergo.
The procedures, which will be carried out by the same surgeons who treat British soldiers injured in Afghanistan, will set the teenager on a road to recovery that will allow her to kick-start her work as a global advocate for girls’ education and to begin a relatively normal life in Birmingham.