LRH doctors succeed in treating Afghan girl

PESHAWAR: After suffering from dry cough for the past three years, doctors in Afghanistan and Pakistan could not succeed in diagnosing the cause of persistent cough of a nine-year old Afghan girl.
She was, however, lucky when her parents took her to the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) in Peshawar where the doctors diagnosed the cause of her disease and successfully removed a foreign metal body. Sonia, daughter of Abdul Jamil, an Afghan national, said he had almost lost hopes about the recovery of his daughter as he had become tired of taking her to each and every doctor in his native Afghanistan.
A few days ago when condition of his daughter deteriorated due to non-stop cough, he took her to Peshawar and admitted at the Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC).The doctors, after thorough examination and investigations including CT Scan of chest, showed a large metallic foreign body (one-inch nail) in her lung.