First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, who was flown out for medical treatment over a week ago, has undergone surgery in a German hospital for ruptured appendicitis, sources told THISDAY Monday.
Although the presidency said she travelled abroad to rest, sources privy to her trip, said she was flown to the German hospital where she was diagnosed of ruptured appendicitis, necessitating the surgery.Mrs. Jonathan was said to have been accompanied on the trip by a medical personnel from the Presidential Villa, and a few of her aides.
THISDAY gathered that the decision to fly her abroad followed her deteriorating health condition in Abuja, after she was initially treated for “food poisoning.”It was learnt that Mrs. Jonathan, shortly after returning from a trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), took ill, prompting the invitation of the First Family’s medical personnel to attend to her.
She was said to have been treated for food poisoning for four days, “but her condition kept worsening by the day,” the source said.
She was said to have been treated for food poisoning for four days, “but her condition kept worsening by the day,” the source said.
By the fifth day, President Goodluck Jonathan was said to have yielded to the suggestion that she be flown abroad for “thorough treatment.”It was not certain if the inability of the president’s doctors to treat her was because of faulty diagnosis or insufficient facilities.According to the source, “the trip was therefore hurriedly, but discretely arranged, after a German hospital, suspected to be Horst Schmidt Klinik in Wiesbaden, Germany, had been contacted”.
By last weekend, she was said to have regained “full consciousness” on her sick bed and was willing to return home.
THISDAY checks, however, revealed that the hospital authorities are insisting on her full recovery before discharging her.They say
she has to be completely stable before she can be discharged
because they are still observing her,although the worst seems to be
over,the source said.When contacted,the Special Adviser to the
President on Media and Publicity,Dr Reuben Abati said''he was
unaware of the first lady's condition.Similar efforts were made to reach the First Lady's spokesman,Mr Ayo Osinlu were unsuccessful as he did not pick his calls nor respond to messages sent to him. An
online forum had quoted him as saying the president's wife travelled abroad for a moment's rest.
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Jonathan and his wife are now doing the same thing that Turai Yar Adua and the cabal were accused of doing with Yar Adua's illness.What is the big deal,anyone can be sick anytime, to hide this from Nigerians just shows it is same-old,same-old.
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