Mississippi's Dr. Mohammad Ali Helps Alabama Teenager After Shark Attack

Lina Portman3 weeks ago

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A Mississippi doctor worked with a team at a Florida beach this weekend to save the life of an Alabama teenager after she was attacked by a shark.

Dr. Mohammad Ali, an interventional radiologist at Baptist Medical Group in Jackson, was vacationing in Rosemary Beach, Fla., when a shark attacked two Birmingham-area teenagers Friday. Ali and Dr. Ryan Forbess of Orange Beach, Alabama, Family Medicine were among those whose efforts helped save 15-year-old Lulu Gribbin, who was seriously injured in the attack. One of Lulu's friends was also bitten by the shark, but was not seriously injured in the attack.

“It was amazing,” Forbess said in a Facebook post. “It was kind of God’s will that everyone was there to help at the same time.”

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Two men pulled the teenager out of the water. Ali and Forbess “were bodyboarding with their family and noticed commotion and blood in the water not far from them,” Mississippi Baptist Medical Center said in a Facebook post. “After pulling their own family out of the water, the two doctors rushed to help. Dr. Ali noticed the severity of the injuries and applied a tourniquet to his upper leg and hand while the “The other doctor and emergency personnel were also helping him.”

Lulu was flown to a Pensacola hospital, where she underwent surgery, her mother Ann Gribbin wrote on BenevolentBridge.

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“It was a big first step,” wrote Ann Gribbin. “Once she was settled in, her first words were: “I did it.”

“I am forever grateful to the three surgeons and all the nurses and doctors at this hospital who saved Lulu,” she added. “I am grateful to the doctors and nurses on the beach that day.”

Ann Gribbin said her daughter had her right leg amputated to mid-thigh and her hand was missing after the shark bit her. Lulu Gribbin will likely need four or five additional surgeries to complete the amputations, her mother said in a Pensacola News Journal article.

Lina Portman

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