Mariza Williams, 12, has a new lease on life after spending months at the Burn Center.
Mariza Williams beat the odds. The 12-year-old may be small in stature, but her bravery knows no bounds. She narrowly escaped death when her secondary school dorm building was set on fire.
"And in a matter of hours, we arranged passports, visas, air evacuation, and got her there in just a matter of days," said Dr. Shalindra Rajkumar, a plastic surgeon at Georgetown Public Hospital in Guyana. "She had about a 40% third-degree flame burn, which she had already undergone some removal of the burned skin. She was on a mechanical breathing machine," Cooper said.
As she was discharged from the hospital and on her way back to Guyana on Monday, the girl's parents thanked the countless doctors, nurses and medical staff at Staten Island University Hospital for giving the brave little girl a bright future.
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