Nigeria's First Lady, Mrs. Patience
Jonathan, has been in a hospital in Germany in the last four days, Abuja State
House sources have told SaharaReporters, undergoing treatment for food
poisoning.
The sources say Mrs. Jonathan, who is
also a Permanent Secretary in the Bayelsa State civil service, was airlifted to
the hospital by an air ambulance in midweek under emergency medical conditions.
Presidency sources stated that the
emergency airlift departed for Wisbanden, Germany, but it is not clear if her
treatment was being undertaken in that city. They said she was only able to
speak earlier today, four days after her arrival, because the illness had been
so severe that she lost her voice.
Our sources could not say when she
will return to the country. Nigeria’s political leaders and their families
routinely seek expensive medical attention abroad, an irony occasioned by their
failure to develop the same facilities at home. In the past few years, two former
First Ladies have died on foreign hospital beds.
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