A nine-year-old Iraqi girl being treated here after losing both legs in a bomb attack o­n her house in Iraq is in good condition and local doctors will soon examine her, a medical consultant said today.

"Yasmine's condition is good. Her stumps are healing well, despite some minor infections," consultant general-surgeon Ganapathi Pillai told AFP .

Yasmine Wa'adi was flown to Malaysia from Jordan yesterday to receive medical treatment here.

Prosthetic limbs

She is currently admitted at the Chinese Maternity Hospital which has offered to operate o­n her free of charge and cover the expenses of her stay at the hospital. She may be fitted with prosthetic limbs.

Ganapathi said he would study her X-rays with two more doctors later today to get a better idea of the condition of her stumps.

Her stumps should heal in about two weeks, and further decisions o­n the type of prosthetic limbs to be fitted would then be made, he said.

Ganapathi said it was too early to tell how long Yasmine's treatment would last, saying "it depends o­n how her limbs heal," but estimated it would take o­ne to two months.

Other sponsors for Yasmine's treatment included the government-backed anti-war coalition Peace Malaysia.

Good collection

The government was firmly opposed to the US-led war in Iraq. Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad warned it would anger Muslims and lead to more terrorism around the world.

Peace Malaysia had collected RM1.7 million to help Iraq war victims.

Yasmine's plight caught the attention of many Malaysians after her story was reported by Malaysian war journalists following a report o­n 12-year-old Iraqi boy Ali Ismail Abbas, who lost both arms and was orphaned in a US missile strike. -- AFP