Operations to repair Queen Elizabeth Hospital 's skull and help her hearing `` were a success , '' the hospital says . Queen Elizabeth Hospital : She is stable , `` awake and talking to staff and members of her family '' October 's five-hour surgery is the latest step on a long road to recovery for the teen activist . In Saturday the Queen Elizabeth Hospital gunmen shot her in the head and neck .
Operations to repair Malala 's skull and help her hearing `` were a success , '' the hospital says . Queen Elizabeth Hospital : She is stable , `` awake and talking to staff and members of her family '' Saturday 's five-hour surgery is the latest step on a long road to recovery for the teen activist . In October Taliban gunmen shot her in the head and neck .