Going home was sweet yesterday for a nine-year-old South Korean girl who had an emergency 20-day stay in a Shanghai hospital.

She was rushed to hospital with internal bleeding after her flight from Guangdong to South Korea made an emergency landing in Shanghai last month.

The girl, identified only as Alina, has made a full recovery and flew back to Seoul with her family yesterday afternoon.

She was rushed to the Children's Hospital of Fudan University after the emergency landing at Hongqiao International Airport on November 14.

Alina was twice moved to intensive care during her treatment.

She has been eating soft foods like porridge for two weeks and has had no bleeding for 19 days, said Wang Yi, deputy director of the hospital.

The hospital said Alina is in good condition. The chief doctor on the case prescribed five medicines for Alina to prevent a recurrence of her condition and gave discharge guidance to her family.

Alina was in high spirits when preparing to go home, with several books as gifts from the doctors, Xinmin Evening News reported yesterday.

(Shanghai Daily December 11, 2007)