Doctors 'hope to save' China crash girl's leg
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China.org.cn, July 26, 2011
Two-year-old girl who lost both parents in China's deadly weekend train crash will likely be able to keep her injured leg, state media quoted her doctor saying on July 26, 2011.
Doctors had earlier said Xiang Weiyi -- who was discovered alive in the train wreckage 21 hours after Saturday night's accident -- might need to have her left leg amputated due to poor circulation stemming from her ordeal.
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Xiang Weiyi, who was in the last carriage of the train,?is only discovered on Sunday afternoon as workers picked through mangled metal at the site 20 hours later after the train crash happened. [CFP] |
But her doctor Chen Xinglong told Xinhua in the eastern city of Wenzhou where the crash occurred that the outlook had improved.
"Currently, the hospital doesn't intend to perform an amputation," said Chen, a doctor at a hospital linked to the Wenzhou Medical College.
The youngster was travelling with her parents when their train suddenly stopped and was rammed by an oncoming high-speed service that pushed four carriages off a viaduct, killing her mother and father, earlier reports said.
At least 39 people were killed in the crash in Zhejiang province. Xiang, who was in the last carriage of the train, was only discovered on Sunday afternoon as workers picked through mangled metal at the site.
