Medica Report:Next 36 to 48 hours critical for Malala

Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj-Gen Asim Bajwa said on Friday that Malala Yousufzai’s condition had improved, adding that, that the next 36 to 48 hours were critical.Speaking to media representatives at the ISPR office, the Pakistan army’s spokesman said the 14-year-old activist was undergoing tests and the next 36 to 48 hours would be crucial for her. The army spokesman further said that Malala was still on a ventilator and that the 14-year-old had been shifted to Rawalpindi upon doctors’ instructions. The DG ISPR added that a medical team had been constituted, headed by a Major General, and that the decision to send Malala abroad would be taken by a medical board. Currently, all the doctors on the panel treating Malala were Pakistanis but two foreign doctors were also being consulted on the treatment. Bajwa said efforts were being made to bring the perpetrators behind the incident to justice and requested the nation to pray for Malala’s well being.