Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's medical correspondent, performed life-saving brain surgery on an 8-year-old Nepal girl this week after she was injured in the deadly earthquake that struck the country over the weekend.
Gupta, who is a staff neurosurgeon at the Emory University School of Medicine, traveled to Nepal to cover the aftermath of the earthquake — which claimed more than 4,000 lives as of Tuesday — when he was
pressed into service in Kathmandu, The Wrap reported.
The little girl was reportedly injured when rubble fell on her head, causing a compound fracture of her skull.
"Essentially, their entire house fell down . . . We're not sure of the whereabouts of her parents," Gupta said in a segment on CNN. "Sometimes they come by taxi cabs, sometimes they come by foot, the patients, sometimes they're being carried by family members or friends. There was a bit of a lull, and people thought maybe the worst was over."
The New York Times reported that engineers and seismologists are surprised that the death totals in the poor, densely populated, areas of Nepal have not been higher. Many experts believe that the area was ill-prepared for such an earthquake because of the infrastructure around the country.
Gupta posted several images via Twitter of the challenges medical workers face in helping the injured.
The earthquake triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest Saturday that took the lives of at least 10 people, including Google executive Dan Fredinburg who was part of a team that was
scaling the mountain, CNN Money reported.
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