reconstructive surgery

Through a nine-hour mastectomy with reconstructive surgery that carved through fear and tissue.

Now aged seven, surgeons decided Vanellope had reached the right age for reconstructive surgery to form a permanent structure around her heart.

Th clinic administers psychological help, reconstructive surgery and prosthetics to victims for free.

This will be followed by reconstructive surgery in the next few months.

"Some will never recover," says hospital director Roshan Kumarasamy, who says that reconstructive surgery will be needed on patients from Gaza for years to come because of an "unimaginably massive spectrum of injuries".