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Toddler Oluchi Nwaubani has astounded doctors by making a full recovery after she was pulled from a swimming pool after 18 minutes underwater and given just a two per cent chance of surviving.
The two-year-old had playing in a friend's garden when she accidentally toppled into the covered swimming pool.
Paramedics desperately tried to revive little Oluchi as she was airlifted to the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel but with no success.
The toddler's condition was so poor, doctors only gave her a two per cent chance of survival and warned parents Junior and Tayo Nwaubani that she would be heavily disabled if she did pull through.
Oluchi was then transferred to an intensive care unit at Great Ormond Street, where doctors discussed with the couple the possibility of switching off her life support machine.
But they refused and much to the amazement of medical teams in the hospital, the tot started to breath for the first time three days after the incident.
Brain scans revealed that she had been under water starved of oxygen for 18 minutes.
The brain usually dies after approximately six minutes without oxygen and the heart usually stops after ten.
Junior, 40, was warned that his daughter would be rendered severely disabled, unable to move, speak or eat properly.
Following nearly three months in hospital, however, she has made an almost complete recovery - barring small issues with her speach - and defied medical research.
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