A four-year-old girl who got injured after getting stuck on a treadmill at a gym in Dubai is now on her way to recovery.
Alex Broun feared his daughter Naraya would be left brain damaged after she was pulled into the treadmill’s “belt mechanism” when she tried to retrieve a gym ball a week ago.
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Naraya was discharged from Rashid Hospital’s intensive care on Wednesday after being sedated for several days.
Doctors feared her brain may have been starved of oxygen, but “she’s doing much better and she has made a good recovery,” said Broun, a well-known Australian playwright.
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“She’s full of life again and has lots of energy, she’s moving around just fine.” Brain scans will be performed on Naraya when she returns to hospital to remove the collar. Broun said he had feared much worse and, “It was such a traumatic experience for her and I honestly believed she was going to die.”
He said the week since the accident at the family’s residential building in Al Bada’a, near Jumeirah, was one of the longest of his life. (AW)
