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Friday, February 17, 2006
Baby Noor won’t need bladder surgery
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta said Friday that Noor al-Zahra, the Iraqi baby rescued by soldiers of a Gainesville-based infantry unit, will not require bladder surgery and remains in good condition.
Noor, however, will need catherization from time to time, although that can be done by family members at home, a hospital statement said.
Urologist Dr. Andrew Kirsch said the baby will need annual monitoring but Kirsch gave her an excellent prognosis as far as her kidneys were concerned.
No timetable has been released yet for the return of the baby, her grandmother Soad and father, Haider, to Iraq.
Soldiers of the Georgia Army National Guard’s 48th Brigade Combat Team discovered the baby in December during a raid of the family’s home in impoverished Abu Ghraib, just west of Baghdad. They sent her to Atlanta for surgery after doctors determined Noor was suffering from a severe form of spina bifida.
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