There was near-panic at 30,000 feet yesterday morning when a
nine-year-old girl suffered a liver hemorrhage during a plane
flight to South Korea.
The South Korean national, name unspecified, received medical
treatment after an emergency landing at Shanghai's Hongqiao
International Airport.
The girl was traveling from Guongzhou, Guangdong Province, where
it is understood she had undergone surgery, but complications arose
mid-flight.
The nine-year-old South
Korean girl who was stricken with a liver hemmorhage while on a
plane receives treatment at Children's Hospital of Fudan University
yesterday. She is now in a stable condition, according to airport
immigration police. (photo: Shanghai Daily)
Immigration officers were waiting at the airport's parking apron
ready to rush the girl to hospital.
She is now in a stable condition at the Children's Hospital of
Fudan University, according to immigration police at Hongqiao
airport.
The officers said the girl had undergone surgery several days
before boarding the flight with her mother.
The plane landed at 11:20am yesterday. Immigration officers
boarded on the plane to complete the girl and her family's Custom
procedures while medical workers helped with her transfer.
"A special passage was also opened for her to save time during
her rescue," said Liu Yongjian, an immigration officer with the
airport.
(Shanghai Daily November 15, 2007)
