The hospital's medical director Dave Rosser told Wednesday's press conference that Malala was a "remarkable young lady" who was determined to continue speaking out for girls' right to education despite her ordeal.
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By AFP | February 3, 2013
British doctors said Sunday that Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban as punishment for campaigning for girls' education, has had successful surgery on her skull.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the central English city of Birmingham said the 15-year-old had undergone two operations on Saturday to insert a titanium plate into her skull and fit an electronic device in her ear.
In an attack that shocked the world, Malala was shot by a Taliban gunman at point-blank range as her schoolbus travelled through Pakistan's Swat Valley on October 9.
She was flown to Britain days later for treatment to the specialist hospital, which also treats British soldiers wounded in Afghanistan.
Malala, who has become a global symbol of the campaign for girls' right to an education, was nominated Friday for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
A hospital spokeswoman said the schoolgirl's medical team were "very pleased" with her progress following five hours of surgery.
"Both operations were a success and Malala is now recovering in hospital," the spokeswoman said.
"Her condition is described as stable and her medical team are very pleased with the progress she has made so far. She is awake and talking to staff and members of her family."
At a press conference on Wednesday giving details of the surgery, Malala's doctors said the custom-made titanium plate would protect her brain by covering the hole left in her head by the bullet.
Doctors say the bullet grazed Malala's brain, coming within centimetres (inches) of killing her, and travelled through her head and neck before lodging in her left shoulder.
The attack left her completely deaf in her left ear but surgeons said a cochlear implant inserted on Saturday should help her hearing return to near-normal levels within 18 months.
The hospital's medical director Dave Rosser told Wednesday's press conference that Malala was a "remarkable young lady" who was determined to continue speaking out for girls' right to education despite her ordeal.
Malala first rose to prominence aged 11 with a blog for the BBC's Urdu-language service charting her life in Swat under the Taliban.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in early October and will be bestowed at a formal ceremony in Oslo on December 10.
© 2013 AFP
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