Iraqi Girl’s Surgery In Greenville Successful
July 19th, 2008 |GREENVILLE, S.C. — An Iraqi girl whose foot was injured in a bomb attack underwent surgery on Thursday to amputate her foot.
Family said 7-year-old Rusul Jalal’s right foot was severely injured when a missile hit near her home in Iraq. Doctors said her foot was turned almost completely backwards, forcing Jalal to walk on the bottom of her ankle bone rather than her foot.Jalal was flown to Greenville to undergo surgery at the Shriners Hospital by a group called No More Victims.
Doctors said they successfully removed Jalal’s foot during the two-hour surgery on Thursday.
Doctors said her recovery is expected to last just over a month. Jalal will then be fitted for a prosthetic foot.
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