KUALA LUMPUR: Ya Yasmine Wa’adi, who lost both her legs below the knee during the US-led bombing in Baghdad recently, underwent successful surgery to remove shrapnel from her stumps at the Chinese Maternity Hospital yesterday.
The nine-year-old is now under a 72-hour observation to monitor her condition, said the hospital's consultant orthopaedic surgeon Dr Suppiah Shanmugam.“Yasmine’s condition is stable now,'' he told a press conference after the surgery.
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