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.
The hospital, the source said, performed the surgery on her last week and she is now recuperating.
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 now,” the source said.
When contacted, Special Adviser to the president on Media and
Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, said he was unaware of the first lady’s
condition.
Similar efforts made to reach the first lady’s spokesman, Mr. Ayo
Osinlu, were unsuccessful as he did not pick calls to his phone nor
respond to text messages sent to him.
But an online forum had quoted him as saying the president’s wife travelled abroad for a “moment’s rest”.
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