Girl in stable condition after Ohope fall

An 8-year-old Kawerau girl who fell 4m from a balcony and landed on her face remains in a stable condition in Middlemore Hospital's intensive care unit.

The girl fell from a balcony in Ohope and landed on her face, causing fractures to her face and jaw, on Monday.

She had been camping with her mother and father at Maungaronga Marae.

A local man, who didn't want to be named, said the girl had been playing with a ball with some other children and had leaned too far over a handrail.

She was taken to the Whakatane Hospital before being flown by the Westpac Air Ambulance to Middlemore Hospital in Auckland.

A Middlemore spokeswoman said today the girl was in a stable condition in intensive care.

 

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