A woman from the United Arab
Emirates, UAE, who went into a coma
after she was injured in an accident in
1991 has woken up from the 27-year-
long coma. Munira Abdulla was 32 when she was
involved in an accident. She was in a car
driven by her brother-in-law after she
picked up her son from school. During the short journey, the car she
was travelling in collided with a
bus. Omar Webair, who was then just
four years old, was sitting in the back of
the vehicle with his mother but he was
unscathed because his mother cradled him in her arms moments before the
accident. Munira suffered a severe brain injury
which left her in a coma and she was
admitted in the hospital. Fortunately, she has made a seemingly
miraculous recovery after she regained
consciousness last year in a German
hospital. In a recent interview with the UAE-
based newspaper, The National,
Munira's son, Omar, opened up about
the accident and about his mother's
progress following years of treatment. Omar told the newspaper on Monday: "I
never gave up on her because I always
had a feeling that one day she would
wake up." He added: "The reason I shared her
story is to tell people not to lose hope
on their loved ones; don't consider them
dead when they are in such a state. "My mother was sitting with me in the
back seat. When she saw the crash
coming, she hugged me to protect me
from the blow." Omar told of how his mother was left
untreated for hours after the accident.
She was eventually taken to
hospital and later transferred to
London. There, she was declared to be
in a vegetative state but able to sense pain, The National reports. She was then returned to Al Ain, a city
in the UAE on the border with Oman
where she lived, and moved to various
medical facilities according to
insurance requirements. She remained
there for a few years, fed through a tube and kept alive. She underwent
physiotherapy to ensure her muscles
would not weaken through lack of
movement. In 2017, the family was offered a grant
by the Crown Prince Court, a
government body in Abu Dhabi, for Ms
Abdulla to be transferred to
Germany. There, she underwent a
number of surgeries to correct her severely shortened arm and leg muscles,
and she was given medication to
improve her state, including her
wakefulness. A year later, Omar was involved in an
argument in his mother's hospital room,
which seemed to prompt his mother to
stir, BBC reports. "There was a misunderstanding in the
hospital room and she sensed I was at
risk, which caused her a shock," Omar
said. "She was making strange sounds and I
kept calling the doctors to examine her,
they said everything was normal. "Then, three days later, I woke up to the
sound of someone calling my name. "It was her! She was calling my name, I
was flying with joy; for years I have
dreamt of this moment, and my name
was the first word she said." She became more responsive, and can
now feel pain and have some
conversations. Munira is also now able
to have conversations with her family She has returned to Abu Dhabi, where
she is undergoing physiotherapy and
further rehabilitation.