Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Offers poured in from around the world to support Malala's recovery.

Her doctors and family decided on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England.

She went on to publish I Am Malala in October 2013, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2014, graduated from high school in Birmingham in July 2017, and finished her college degree from Oxford in June 2020.

In October 2025, Malala published her second memoir called Finding My Way, a more personal and funny book about life since the shooting.

Yeah.

So 12th September 2019, uh, Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, walked into the genetic consultant's room, and even before she could shut the door, she told me the worst news of my life, that it wasn't the news that we'd all been hoping and praying for, and that I am a carrier.

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Oh, mate, I can't imagine it.

I can satisfy that quite significantly.

Well, I was born at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, unfortunately, as long ago as 1951, unfortunately.

But my parents moved down to Poole five or six years later, and I've been here ever since.

Right, OK, got that.

Malala was moved from Peshawar to Rawalpindi, where she was kept under close care while arrangements were made to send her abroad.

Six days after the shooting, she was flown to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

She regained consciousness roughly 10 days after she had been shot.

Her recovery took months.