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Gallery: Pippie Kruger's skin graft a success

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  1. Anice Kruger waits by the door as her child Pippie is wheeled out of theatre after going through surgery at Netcare Graden City Hospital for a check-up of her new skin. Picture: Bongiwe Mchunu
  2. Burn victim Isabella Pippie Kruger will be under sedation at the Netcare Garden City Hospital in Joburg for a week after she received artificially cloned skin in a groundbreaking transplant. Photo: Antoine de Ras
  3. Doctor Hazir Mukaddam the anethesist in charge tends to Isabella "Pippie" after her big operation. Picture: Antoine de Ras
  4. Doctor Hazir Mukaddam the anethesist in charge escorts Isabella "Pippie" (her mother is on extreme right in the back) to her ward after her big operation. Photo: Antoine de Ras
  5. Two doctors give each other a high five as the special skin arrives in the theatre room. (box on the floor). Picture: Antoine de Ras
  6. Plastic surgeon, Dr. Ridwan Mia inspects three year old Isabella "Pippie" Kruger's progress in an isolated ward at the Pediatric ICU at Netcare Garden City Hospital. Picture: Paballo Thekiso
  7. Parents Erwin Kruger and mother Anice Kruger with baby Arno (1yr) wait nervously while Pippie undergoes surgery.
  8. Anice Kruger hugs her daughter, Pippie, who will be underwent a groundbreaking skin transplant. Photo: Timothy Bernard
  9. Little Pippie, 3, is wheeled into theatre at Garden City to undergo surgery to get a new skin after getting burned. Picture: Bongiwe Mchunu
  10. Anice Kruger stands with gifts from different donors in the corridors of the Netcare Garden city before visiting her three year old daughter Isabella "Pippie" Kruger in her isolated ward at the Pediatric ICU at Netcare Garden city hospital. Picture: Paballo Thekiso
  11. Plastic surgeon, Dr. Ridwan Mia inspects three year old Isabella "Pippie" Kruger's progress in an isolated ward at the Pediatric ICU at Netcare Garden city hospital this week. Picture: Paballo Thekiso
  12. A nurse inspects three year old Isabella "Pippie" Kruger's progress helped by Dr. Ridwan Mia in an isolated ward at the Pediatric ICU at Netcare Garden city hospital this week. Picture: Paballo Thekiso
  13. Plastic surgeon, Dr. Ridwan Mia inspects three year old Isabella "Pippie" Kruger's progress as her mother Anice Kruger helps in an isolated ward at the Pediatric ICU at Netcare Garden city hospital this week. Picture: Paballo Thekiso
  14. Pippie Kruger has endured months of pain from extensive burn wounds.
  15. An assistant Doctor helps prepare little Pippie for her big operation. Isabella " Pippie" Kruger (3years old) arrived at Garden City Hospital to receive artificially cloned skin transplant after a severe fire injury. Picture: Antoine de Ras
  16. Isabella " Pippie" Kruger (3years old) arrives (The Main doctor Ridman Mia (left) and her mother Anice Kruger centre walks along with her) at Garden City Hospital to receive artificially cloned skin transplant after a severe fire injury. Picture: Antoine de Ras
  17. Doctor Ridwan Mia, in charge of the skin transplant team, prepares for Pippie Krugers big operation. Photo: Antoine de Ras

Gallery: Pippie Kruger's skin graft a success

 

The skin graft on Pippie Kruger, who sustained third-degree burns to 80 percent of her body, has been a success, surgeons said

"Overall we can say it's a success," plastic surgeon Dr Ridwan Mia told reporters.

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