Malala Yousafzai By Mehwish F. & Tooba N.
She only wanted the right to learn. She only wanted the right to education. Malala Yousafzai at the young age of fourteen was shot in the head early October on her way home from school after taking an exam.
What seemed like any other day, turned out to be the scariest encounter Malala had ever been through. According to BBC news, a masked man approached Malala and her friends and demanded to know which one was Malala. After hearing no response, the sinful man threatened to shoot them all if she did not answer. Speaking up, Malala said her name and was immediately shot once in the head and once in the collarbone. A few other girls who were also wounded, but not hurt nearly as bad as Malala, spoke to reporters and officers and provided them the details.
Soon after the shooting, she was taken airway to a military hospital in Peshawar. The doctors there began her three hour surgery and successfully removed the bullet from her shoulder and collarbone and a bullet on the left side of her head.
The next day, Malala was still being treated in the intensive care unit. The doctors decided to perform a decompressive craniectomy. This basically means that they removed part of her skull and let the brain swell.
On October eleventh, two days after the attack, Malala was transferred to another hospital in Rawalpindi. A medical team treating her at the hospice reported, "neurologically she has significantly improved … coming days … are very critical". Mumtaz Khan, a doctor, said that she had a 70% possibility of survival. According to her uncle, Faiz Muhammad, she had not been wide awake or receptive since the surgery to remove the bullet and remained on a ventilator. A CT scan indicated that there was still minor swelling in Malala’s brain, but her fundamental organs were intact and functioning on the whole.
Pakistan’s minister Rehman Malik said that Malala would be taken to Germany, where she would be given the best possible medical treatment, as soon as she was steady enough to trek. A team of doctors would travel with her, and the government would pay for her treatment.
On October fifteenth, Malala traveled to the United Kingdom for additional treatment, permitted by both her doctors and family. Her plane landed in Dubai to replenish and then continued to Birmingham where she is being treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, one of the specialties of this hospital being the treatment of military personnel injured in conflict. The decision seemed to make both medical and diplomatic logic. Doctors at the hospital reported the next day that Malala Yousafzai is "not out of the woods yet … but at this stage we're optimistic that things are going in the right direction".
And with our hope and prayer Malala Yousafzai will indeed not only heal, but who go to school and learn to the fullest. She will live her life and one day tell the tale of her courage to her children and her grandchildren.
What seemed like any other day, turned out to be the scariest encounter Malala had ever been through. According to BBC news, a masked man approached Malala and her friends and demanded to know which one was Malala. After hearing no response, the sinful man threatened to shoot them all if she did not answer. Speaking up, Malala said her name and was immediately shot once in the head and once in the collarbone. A few other girls who were also wounded, but not hurt nearly as bad as Malala, spoke to reporters and officers and provided them the details.
Soon after the shooting, she was taken airway to a military hospital in Peshawar. The doctors there began her three hour surgery and successfully removed the bullet from her shoulder and collarbone and a bullet on the left side of her head.
The next day, Malala was still being treated in the intensive care unit. The doctors decided to perform a decompressive craniectomy. This basically means that they removed part of her skull and let the brain swell.
On October eleventh, two days after the attack, Malala was transferred to another hospital in Rawalpindi. A medical team treating her at the hospice reported, "neurologically she has significantly improved … coming days … are very critical". Mumtaz Khan, a doctor, said that she had a 70% possibility of survival. According to her uncle, Faiz Muhammad, she had not been wide awake or receptive since the surgery to remove the bullet and remained on a ventilator. A CT scan indicated that there was still minor swelling in Malala’s brain, but her fundamental organs were intact and functioning on the whole.
Pakistan’s minister Rehman Malik said that Malala would be taken to Germany, where she would be given the best possible medical treatment, as soon as she was steady enough to trek. A team of doctors would travel with her, and the government would pay for her treatment.
On October fifteenth, Malala traveled to the United Kingdom for additional treatment, permitted by both her doctors and family. Her plane landed in Dubai to replenish and then continued to Birmingham where she is being treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, one of the specialties of this hospital being the treatment of military personnel injured in conflict. The decision seemed to make both medical and diplomatic logic. Doctors at the hospital reported the next day that Malala Yousafzai is "not out of the woods yet … but at this stage we're optimistic that things are going in the right direction".
And with our hope and prayer Malala Yousafzai will indeed not only heal, but who go to school and learn to the fullest. She will live her life and one day tell the tale of her courage to her children and her grandchildren.