Malala Yousafzai, the world's youngest Nobel laureate in Pakistan and a human rights activist, said she was still receiving treatment nine years after her suicide attack. She is still undergoing treatment.
Malala Yousafzai wrote an article about her treatment for the Taliban's return to Afghanistan for Facebook's Bulletin Podium, in which she talks about ongoing surgeries since 2012.
Malala Yousafzai is believed to have been attacked by unknown individuals near Mingora, the capital of Swat, on October 9, 2012, along with two other female students, who were injured and later found evidence of Taliban involvement in the attack.
In her opening remarks, Malala wrote: "Two weeks ago, when US forces were withdrawing from Afghanistan and the Taliban were gaining control, she was undergoing her sixth operation in a hospital bed in Boston, because The doctors were treating the damage done to my body by the Taliban. Nine years after being shot, I am still recovering from just one Taliban bullet. Read more: https://t.co/wrnJIEW06G pic.twitter.com/gd4oow1WIE
"The bullet ripped through my left eye, skull and brain, injured my face, broke my eardrum," said Malala Yousafzai. And severely damaged my jaw joints.
"Emergency surgeons in Peshawar, Pakistan, removed my left skull to make room for the swelling from my brain injury. Their timely action saved my life but soon My limbs had stopped working and I was flown to Islamabad.
"A week later, the doctors determined that I needed more care and that I should be relocated to continue my treatment," she said.
"I was in a coma at the time. I don't remember anything until I regained consciousness at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham," she said.
"When I opened my eyes, I realized I was alive, but I didn't know where I was or why I was surrounded by English-speaking strangers," she said of regaining consciousness in a British hospital.
Explaining the details of her treatment, Malala Yousafzai said, "When Pakistani surgeons removed part of my skull, it was transferred to my abdomen so that they could perform another surgery on me and put it back in my head."
"British doctors decided to put a titanium plate on the area where my skull was to reduce the risk of infection, a procedure called cranioplasty," she said.
Malala said that the doctors removed a piece of my skull from my stomach which is on my bookshelf today.
"During the titanium cranioplasty, a cochlear implant was placed in my ear at the site where the bullet had damaged my eardrum," she said.
The damage to Malala's face as a result of the attack was also treated,she said. "Six weeks after arriving in the UK, doctors decided to treat my paralyzed face. She tried to reattach the severed veins in the hope that they would grow and help them move.
"After a few months of neurosurgery and regular facial massage, my balance and mobility improved a bit," she said.
"If I smiled with closed lips, I could almost see my old face like this. When I laughed, I would cover my face with my hands so that people would not see that one part of the face works like the other," she said. Not doing
Malala Yousafzai had to undergo two surgeries in 2018 and 2019 for further treatment of the paralyzed part of her face, while the third took place in August this year. And put it in my face, which moved from right to left.
"In 2019, doctors took a tissue from my leg and placed it on the left side of my face, hoping that the vein would connect to the tissue and start sending signals to my facial muscles," she said.
"On August 9, in Boston, I woke up at 5 am to go to the hospital for my recent surgery and saw the news that the Taliban had taken over Kunduz, Afghanistan's first major city," Malala said of the third surgery.
"For the next few days, I was wrapped in a bandage around my head with ice packs. I watched on TV that one province after another surrendered in front of them. It was full of bullets that hit me.
"As soon as I was able to sit down again, I started making phone calls, writing letters to heads of state around the world and talking to women's rights activists who were still in Afghanistan," she said. ۔
"Over the past two weeks, we have been able to help many of these workers, including their families, reach safety, but I know we cannot save them all," she said.
"When the Taliban shot me, journalists in Pakistan and a few international media outlets already knew my name. They knew that I had been involved in girls' education for years by extremists," she said. She was speaking out against the ban.
Malala Yousafzai said she reported the attack and people around the world reacted to it but the reaction could have been different and my story might have ended in a local news story about a 15-year-old girl being shot in the head. was given'.
"Without the thousands of letters and help offers, prayers and mentions in the news, I might not have received medical help," she said in the article.
"My parents certainly would not have been able to cover the expenses themselves and I probably would not have survived," said Malala Yousafzai.
"Nine years later, with just one pill, the people of Afghanistan have taken millions of pills in the last four decades," she said.
Malala Yousafzai had said, "My heart aches for those whose names we will forget or never know and who are crying out for help but no one will come to their aid."
"A few days ago I called my best friend, the same girl who was sitting with me on the school bus when I was attacked. I asked her to tell me again what happened that day," she said in the article. It happened.
"I have a bullet on my body and marks of several operations but I have no memory of that day and even after 9 years my best friend still has nightmares," says Malala.
