Great News. The 15 year-old Greek boy from Patras, who was airlifted to Hanover, Germany, for brain surgery, is now in the clear and recovering. In fact a report on ANT1's George Papadakis' morning talk show said on Thursday that the young boy even took his first steps (for a few seconds that is) on Wednesday.
The doctors at the German clinic apparently removed a cavernous angioma from the student's brain in an operation that could not be performed in Greece. Following a request by the health minister, the young patient was flown to Hanover on the prime minister's aircraft, to guarantee special cabin pressurization conditions during flight.
The young student has now been transferred to a regular ward and doctors believe he in about a month he will be ready for physical therapy.
It should be reminded that the story about this young boy made headlines after a group of senior high-school students in Demenika in Patra, western Greece, donated the money that they had collected for their annual school excursion to the the 15 year-old's family. And when a local businessman heard about the news and the generosity of these students, he donated the money to the high school students but they in return gave this amount to the boy's family as well.
(The annual excursion is the European equivalent of Prom Night, or Grad Night in N.America)
This inspired a mass effort from a lot of people and suddenly tens of thousands of euros were raised. With the help of the Greek state, the young boy was then flown to Germany and today he really has a shot at life.
Great story... Wish there were more of these every day.
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