BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom: A 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban is making progress in a British hospital, doctors said, as police turned away visitors claiming to be relatives.

Malala Yousafzai was in a stable condition on her first full day in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham after being flown to the city in central Englanssd in an air ambulance.

The hospital’s medical director David Rosser said that “she is showing every sign of being every bit as strong as we’ve been led to believe.”

“Malala will need reconstructive surgery and we have international experts in that field,” he added.

He said that doctors at the highly specialized hospital—where British service personnel wounded in Afghanistan are treated—were beginning to plan for the complex procedures but they would not be carried out in the coming days.

Malala has been assessed by clinicians from the neurosurgery, imaging, trauma and therapy departments, though “very specialist teams” who may become involved further down the line are yet to perform detailed assessments on her injuries, Rosser added.

Malala was shot on a school bus in the former Taliban stronghold of the Swat valley on Tuesday as a punishment for campaigning for the right to an education, in an attack which outraged the world. She had a bullet removed from her skull last week.

Given that she was targeted for assassination by a Taliban gunman, security measures are in place at the hospital.

Rosser said that there had been some “irritating incidents” overnight in which people “claiming to be members of Malala’s family—which we don’t believe to be true” had turned up.

Malala came to prominence with a blog for the BBC highlighting atrocities under the Taliban, the hardline Islamists who terrorized the Swat valley from 2007 until an army offensive in 2009.

The attack has been denounced worldwide, including in Pakistan, which is meeting the costs of her treatment.

Pakistan has also offered more than $100,000 for the capture of her attackers. Nearly 200 people have been detained as part of the investigation but most have been released.