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UAE woman Munira Abdulla wakes up after 27 years in a coma

UAE woman Munira Abdulla wakes up after  years in a coma
UAE woman Munira Abdulla wakes up after 27 years in a coma

2019-04-24 00:00:00 - Source: Baghdad Post

A woman from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who was seriously

injured in a traffic accident in 1991 has made a seemingly miraculous recovery

after emerging from a 27-year-long coma.
Munira Abdulla, who

was aged 32 at the time of the accident, suffered a severe brain injury after

the car she was travelling in collided with a bus on the way to pick up her son

from school.
Omar Webair, who was

then just four years old, was sitting in the back of the vehicle with her, but

was left unscathed as his mother cradled him in her arms moments before the

accident.
Ms Abdulla - who was

being driven by her brother-in-law - was left seriously injured, but last year

regained consciousness in a German hospital.
Omar has opened up

about the accident and about his mother's progress following years of treatment

in an interview with the UAE-based newspaper The National.
"I never gave up on her because

I always had a feeling that one day she would wake up," Omar told

the newspaper on Monday.
"The reason I

shared her story is to tell people not to lose hope on their loved ones; don't

consider them dead when they are in such a state," he added.
"My mother was

sitting with me in the back seat. When she saw the crash coming, she hugged me

to protect me from the blow."
He was unharmed,

suffering just a bruise to the head, but his mother was left untreated for

hours.
Ms Abdulla was

eventually taken to hospital, and later transferred to London. There, she was

declared to be in a vegetative state - unresponsive, but able to sense pain -

The National reports.
She was then

returned to Al Ain, a city in the UAE on the border with Oman where she lived,

and moved to various medical facilities according to insurance requirements.
She remained there

for a few years, fed through a tube and kept alive. She underwent physiotherapy

to ensure her muscles would not weaken through lack of movement.
In 2017, the family

was offered a grant by the Crown Prince Court, a government body in Abu Dhabi,

for Ms Abdulla to be transferred to Germany.
There, she underwent

a number of surgeries to correct her severely shortened arm and leg muscles,

and she was given medication to improve her state, including her wakefulness.
A year later, her

son was involved in an argument in her hospital room, which seemed to prompt

his mother to stir.
"There was a

misunderstanding in the hospital room and she sensed I was at risk, which

caused her a shock," Omar said.
"She was making

strange sounds and I kept calling the doctors to examine her, they said

everything was normal.
"Then, three

days later, I woke up to the sound of someone calling my name.
"It was her!

She was calling my name, I was flying with joy; for years I have dreamt of this

moment, and my name was the first word she said."
She became more

responsive, and can now feel pain and have some conversations.
She has returned to

Abu Dhabi, where she is undergoing physiotherapy and further rehabilitation -

mainly to improve her posture when sitting and prevent muscles from

contracting.





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