"Two days later, he was transferred to the European Hospital, where doctors operated to stop the bleeding in his brain and removed roughly one-third of his skull to reduce the pressure. He spent two weeks in the intensive care unit on oxygen and mechanical ventilation. He lost his ability to speak and became paralysed on his left side. His eye nerve was also damaged from the head trauma, and he is at risk of losing his eyesight."
"After he regained consciousness, he was kept in the hospital for several more weeks before being transferred to a hospital run by the Red Crescent, where he received physiotherapy for a month and a half. The plan was to stabilise him for several more months before doing a surgery to insert an artificial bone to cover his brain. But on one of Ahmad's final days at the hospital, the Israeli army bombed so close to the facility that shrapnel and rubble hit the building."
Ahmad was nine when a missile explosion in Nuseirat threw him down a staircase and shattered his skull. He underwent emergency brain surgery at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and a later operation at the European Hospital that removed roughly one-third of his skull to relieve pressure. He spent weeks in intensive care on ventilation, lost speech, became left-side paralysed, and suffered optic nerve damage risking blindness. He received physiotherapy at a Red Crescent facility and awaited implantation of an artificial skull bone. Nearby bombing forced urgent transfer back to the European Hospital, where a synthetic bone was implanted.
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