Leadership September 19, 2012 Horst Schmidt Klinik in Wiesbaden, a German hospital where Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of Nigeria's President, is presently being treated has confirmed that she would not be discharged so soon, a development that is contrary to frequent reports from the Presidency that the ailing first lady would return back to the country by the end of this week. One of the consultants with President Jonathan's wife told our foreign Correspondent during a telephone dialogue on Wednesday that the condition of the ailing first lady has not improved up to the expectations of the medical team. Although the consultant who did not want her name to be mentioned disclosed that the presidency was making serious efforts for Mrs Patience Jonathan to be discharged before the end of this week so she could travel with the president to New York where she was expected to lead some side events of the ongoing 67th United Nations General Assembly. During the telephone dialogue that lasted for about five minutes, the source pressed further there was no way the ailing first lady could be discharged now as a result of her unstable health situation, stressing that the management of the hospital had communicated with the federal government in writing as regards the impossibilities surrounding the discharge as proposed by the presidency. | Dame Patience Jonathan |
"Our response to the Nigerian government as regards the condition of our client here was communicated through the Nigerian embassy in Germany. We cannot discharge her now. She has to remain with us until her deteriorating health condition improves"
Ask of the real cause of her ailment, the consultant who declined to go into details confirmed that Mrs Jonathan had undergone some intestinal operations to keep her tummy firm, a process she said led to poisoning and complications.
"Those operations that were performed on Mrs Patience Jonathan led to a ruptured stomach and i think that was the reason she was fainting and as well having abdominal pains before she was brought here for treatments" the source said.
She however stressed that the doctors working with the first lady would perform some other operations on her at the begining of next week if her condition does not improve as expected.
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