The last survivor to leave a hospital was a 10-year-old girl who was badly hurt in the Robb Elementary School shooting on May 24.
Mayah Zamora was shot by insane gunman Salvador Ramos in Uvalde, Texas, and required 66 days of medical care at University Health in San Antonio.
In a video made public by University Health, Zamora was seen leaving the hospital and presenting single stem roses to staff members as they gathered to cheer her on. Additionally, they shouted “Mayah! Mayah!”
Today at University Hospital was a joyful day, according to a tweet from the facility. Mayah Zamora, 10, who was the last victim of the shooting in Uvalde, was released!
She is our hero, and we can’t wait to see everything she accomplishes in the future, the message continued.
#MayahStrong was used as a hashtag along with it.
The Uvalde school shooting horrified the country and sparked new calls for gun reform legislation. Two teachers and 19 children were killed in all. Zamora and three other people also suffered injuries.
After the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, the incident was the second-deadliest school shooting in American history.
According to a GoFundMe campaign created to assist Zamora’s family with her medical expenses, the fourth-grader was required to have multiple surgeries after Ramos injured her.
Additionally, the funds earned on the crowdfunding campaign will aid in covering future medical expenses that will be required.
As of the publication of this article, the page has raised close to $110,000. Zamora has a “tough road to recovery,” a relative commented on the website.
A total of $1.25 million will be given to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District in order to offer staff and students trauma-informed counselling.
According to KSAT, Zamora’s softball teammates also managed to earn almost $4,000 for their injured comrade by putting up a lemonade stand at a game.
She will get better, a colleague named Victoria assured the station at the time of the fundraising. I’m hoping she’ll feel better.
Additionally, I’ll specifically tell them to pray, that I’m praying for her, and that I hope she feels better.
The 10-year-cousin old’s told Fox San Antonio that it was a wonder that she was still alive, adding, “We miss her smile, we miss her being happy and crazy around us, and constantly cheering up the other kids.”
Ruben, the 10-year-brother, old’s stated earlier in July in a post on Facebook that his sister had already started physical therapy but he was unsure of how long she would stay in the hospital.
It could take another month or more, according to Ruben, or it could take just two weeks. We’ll just have to wait and see how far my sister can get.
But I’ll tell you what, she is strong, determined, stubborn, and hardheaded, and on top of that, she wants to leave that hospital, he said.
She has shocked the physicians so much already, and she wants to shock them even more.
Her health was changed by University Hospital officials in June from serious to fair.
Kevin Fowler, a well-known country musician, paid Zamora a visit on July 4 while she was in the hospital.
Fowler said in a series of tweets that Zamora and her family had been set to go to one of his performances before the incident.
Hospital workers contacted Fowler’s reps after discovering this.
In those tweets, Fowler referred to Zamora as “the most lovely little kid.” Fowler said that Zamora had’multiple’ bullet wounds in a different communication.
Additionally, he tweeted: “Meeting this adorable young child was such a fantastic experience.”
She is a lot bolder than I ever could be.
“This whole event really hit home with me,” Fowler concluded.
Three of my daughters, and I can’t even fathom one of them going through this.
Fowler called Christina and Ruben Zamora’s parents “perfect angels” while describing them.