A 2-year-old girl from Gardez province and her family flew to Cincinnati, Ohio earlier this month to have reconstructive surgery on the child’s trachea after swallowing a battery a year ago.
Nazia Gardezi had been a permanent resident of the Intensive Care Wing at Craig Joint Theater Hospital, Bagram Air Field since October 2008 when she was brought back to the hospital with severe pneumonia due the family’s inability to suction her airway properly.