Bangalore: Pakistani girl Noor Fatima was taken off the ventilator on July 18, four days after she underwent an open-heart surgery at Narayana Hridayalaya, a cardiac speciality hospital on the city outskirts, the doctor attending on her said.

"She is looking alright. Her vital parameters are fine," Dr Rajesh Sharma, paediatric cardiac surgeon who led the team, which performed the operation on the two-and-a-half year-old child, said.

Noor, he said, would be kept in the Intensive Thoracic Unit "for at least another two days".

Noor, who came in the Lahore-Delhi bus on July 11 on the first trip after resumption of the service, underwent the operation for Ventricular Septal Defect with pulmonary stenosis on July 15.

According to doctors, the nearly six-hour surgery was performed to plug two holes in the heart and involved removal of obstruction to blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery.

PTI