Kochi: College student Hanan Hameed who was injured in a car accident on Monday, is likely to be bedridden for some time even as surgeons claimed her operation was successful.
The doctors at the Medical Trust Hospital, Ernakulam, stated it will take a while for Hanan to regain her limbs' mobility.
The badly injured young woman underwent a spinal surgery at the Medical Trust on Monday evening as her 12th vertebra was fractured in the accident. Dr Haron, who performed the surgery, said that she is yet to regain the mobility of her right hand and both legs even after the operation.
'The fractured vertebra has been fixed with a permanent implant. Taking her age, resilient health condition and body weight into consideration, Hanan should resume the mobility of her limbs ina short period of time if she is given good physiotherapy and healthcare,' Dr Haron said.
Hanan has not fully realised the her health condition and believes that her limbs are immobile due to sedatives and anesthetics.
A native of Kochi, she shot to limelight after a photograph of her selling fish in her college uniform went viral on social media. She has been living alone in a rented house at Madavana in Kochi. At the hospital, she is accompanied by Priya, whom she had met only a couple of days ago.
K M Moosa, the chairman of Al-Azhar Group of institutions, where Hanan pursues an undergraduate course, has expressed his willingness to be her guardian and help her recover provided the government bears her medical expenses. The opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala has also posted a Facebook status in support of Hanan.
Meanwhile, the Kerala government has decided to pay Hanan's medical bills. The government has reportedly sent an urgent official notification to the Medical Trust, promising to bear her entire medical expenses. The move comes after Chennithala apprised state minister EP Jayarajan about Hanan's condition.
Hospital sources said the urgent surgery cost Rs 2.5 lakh. Moosa made an initial payment of Rs 1 lakh at the hospital.
After Hanan, 20, was targeted in an online defamation campaign recently, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan had assured her wholehearted support from the government. He had then consoled the talented student, calling her 'government's daughter' and promised that the state would protect her like its own daughter.