Shaw007: i dont think its a matter of not trusting the Nigerian doctors,i think its more of a "Go 2 the best doctor" tin

Even Americans still go 2 switzerland for some peculiar surgeries!! I'm quite positive if she had malaria she wud av done it here

and tell me pls,if u had cancer,would u prefer 2 treat it here when u av greater chances abroad?

dedeike: From Saharareporters to Premium times. I wonder why these blackmailers always love online news papers rather than the established print media in Nigeria.
Why don't these paid hirelings on Nairaland quote the likes of THISDAY, VANGUARD, PUNCH, GUARDIAN, and even their paymasters NATIONNEWSPAPERS?

The reason is simple. These online media platforms offer pure and unadulterated falsehood for their propaganda machinery. They have no means for verification of the authencity of its reports.
They just quote sources that are anonymous and the deal is done. It's simple. Just cook up c.ock and bull stories and engage an IT expert to upload it online. That is the height of faceless journalism.

A colleague of mine told me in the office that he will start believing anything from SAHARAREPORTERS whenever he sees their representative in any press briefing or conference.And I agree with him.

Nigeria's first lady Patience Jonathan was in a bad state of health when she arrived last week at the Horst Schmidt Klinik in Wiesbaden, Germany, a spokesperson for the hospital has told LEADERSHIP.

The hospital's official, who confirmed that initial records showed that Mrs. Patience Jonathan had earlier been treated for food poisoning in Nigeria before being brought to the Horst Schmidt Klinik, however, said she was responding to treatment after she had undergone a major surgery for a ruptured appendix to remove the poisons in her intestine.

During an eight-minute telephone chat yesterday through telephone number +49611433436, a senior consultant of the hospital who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mrs. Jonathan was brought to the hospital early last week after the management of the hospital had been contacted and briefed on the deteriorating health condition of the first lady.

She said that Mrs. Jonathan was getting better but added that the hospital management would ensure that she was fully fit before she would be allowed to go back to Nigeria.

When our correspondent demanded further details, the hospital official said it was improper and unethical for her to make such details available to a third party, ending the call and refusing to pick up subsequent calls.

Meanwhile, a reliable source in Aso Rock disclosed to LEADERSHIP that the decision to take the First Lady to Germany for better treatment was borne out of the fact that her medical aides in Nigeria complained that they could not get accurate diagnosis as a result of insufficient medical facilities in the country.

It would be recalled that the first lady's media aide, Mr. Ayo Osinlu, had confirmed her foreign trip at the beginning of the week, but said Patience Jonathan was only taking a rest abroad and not seeking medical attention.

Osinlu said that the First Lady is expected back in the country this week.

Meanwhile, the Special Assistant on Media to the First Lady, Ayo Osinlu yesterday dispelled report by an online media, claiming that the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan was air lifted to Germany for medical treatment.

Osinlu who spoke in a telephone call put to him by State House Correspondents from the council chamber at the presidential villa, Abuja, maintained that he can be quoted authoritatively on the matter that the report were all lies, adding that even at gun point, he had no more information to give on the issue.

He said for now, he still had no idea when the First Lady would return to the country, even as it was not in his capacity to find out. Ha added that he had no fresh information to add aside what he earlier said that was reported in the Media on Monday.

The Media Assistant to the First Lady said, "Nobody is going to put a gun on my head and force me to talk when I have no fresh information, my position is not different from what I told Daily Trust".

Leemak: Make she no return back home alive, AMENNNNNN.....using 3million naira to eat a day and stil praying for her recovery, may God almighty turn His side away from those pple dt ar praying for her recovery, a common man with no complete 3 meals per day wil die of serious sickness yet a fucking big-belly person wil hav only appendice and then hospitalised in foreign country......what a shameless country!

Eltonluigi: Why would anybody go all the way to Germany for an appendix surgery when it can be done at any local hospital at home

gmyguy: hope you know there's a plethora of nigerian doctors abroad

bibigirl07: This First Lady Palaver is beginning to bore me. Must Abati lie? Abi person no fit sick again nii? Its high time they realise they are all mortals ‎​Ãήϑ illness is nothing to be ashamed of. After all the millions used for feeding in aso rock, Ɣ appendix no go protest? Get well soon, Dame.

emmasege: It's high time GEJ hired prayer warriors to intercede for him so that he and his wife would come out of Aso rock alive at the end of their reign. because since after IBB's reign, first couples have always come out either as widow or widower. or could it be that some evil covenants were made at the completion of aso rock?. this surely is no longer coincidental o.

slightlyMad:

Nigerian, This is the time to pray for this woman, Not the time to blame.
I wish everyone could set time out to pray for her.

Theben: Em wait o, is the heading supposed to be ruptured "appendicitis" or "appendix"? Cos to me appendicitis is an inflammation of the appendix.