Three-year-old Roona Begum who was rushed to hospital in New
Delhi, India, last year, suffering an extreme form of hydrocephalus water on
the brain is smiling for the first time after surgery to reduce the
circumference from 37 to 23 inches.
Surgeons carried out a series of operations to reduce the
size of Roona's head, but she was discharged home, her parents warned she had
little chance of survival.
But this week medics were shocked to find that not only is
Roona alive, she is starting to smile and laugh.
The doctors said she would not live - but she has survived,'
said Roona's mother Fatima Khatun, 23.
'She is much better now. She can hold her head straight and
she can move her head from side to side on her own. She responds to other kids
and she will smile if other kids call out her name.'
She added: 'I would be very happy if she could stand and
talk and be like a normal child. We hope she will one day go to school.'
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