Shot Pakistani teenager Malala 'standing with help': Docs

October 19, 2012 18:37

Pakistan's teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, shot in the head by Taliban, has managed to stand with help for the first time and is also able to write, doctors treating her at a UK hospital said today, while warning that "she is not out of the woods" yet. 15-year-old Malala "is now well enough... she is happy, in fact, keen for us to share quite a lot of clinical detail with you," Dr David Rosser said. "She's communicating very freely, she's writing," he said.

The girl has managed to stand with help for the first time since the October 9 attack. Malala was "doing very well" but there were still some concerns about her smooth recovery, he said, adding that she was "not out of the woods" yet.

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