Wife
of the president, Aisha Buhari, has officially commissioned Cedar Crest
Hospital where surgeons first operated on her son Yusuf in the wake of a
motorbike crash in Abuja.
She
praised the 90-bed hospital sited in Abuja’s Apo District for saving her son’s
life after the crash.
Buhari
emphasized the importance of keeping health care delivery ready for emergencies
as had befallen her son, citing controversial comments she had made about poor
state of facilities at the State House Clinic.
The
comments were to keep hospitals ready in the event that “something happened to
anyone,” she said.
“And
it happened to my son. He almost lost his life, but this hospital saved him,”
said Buhari, accompanied by the wife of the vice president
“Even
after he was flown abroad for further medical attention, they [hospitals and
surgeons abroad] did not do anything for him. They asked where the accident
happened, where the surgery took place, I said Nigeria. They said
excellent."
“I
believe in making Nigeria a better place. I don’t believe in spending our
resources abroad. We have all it takes to have a hospital like this.”
A
team of orthopaedic and neurosurgeons at Cedar Crest had first worked on Yusuf
before he was flown abroad for further treatment.
The
hospital, from its first location at Garki II, had its partners install and use
facilities for years before its commissioning to “change the landscape of
health in Nigeria,” said Cedar Crest managing director Dr Felix Ogedegbe.
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