Going home was sweet yesterday for a nine-year-old South Korean
girl who had an emergency 20-day stay in a Shanghai hospital.
She was rushed to hospital with internal bleeding after her
flight from Guangdong to South Korea made an emergency landing
in?Shanghai last month.
The girl, identified only as Alina, has made a full recovery and
flew back to Seoul with her family yesterday afternoon.
She was rushed to the Children's Hospital of Fudan University
after the emergency landing at Hongqiao International Airport on
November 14.
Alina was twice moved to intensive care during her
treatment.
She has been eating soft foods like porridge for two weeks and
has had no bleeding for 19 days, said Wang Yi, deputy director of
the hospital.
The hospital said Alina is in good condition. The chief doctor
on the case prescribed five medicines for Alina to prevent a
recurrence of her condition and gave discharge guidance to her
family.
Alina was in high spirits when preparing to go home, with
several books as gifts from the doctors, Xinmin Evening
News reported yesterday.
(Shanghai Daily December 11, 2007)