Moved by compassion, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, at the National Hospital, Abuja, paid the medical bill of a young girl shot by armed robbers.
The president was at the hospital to console survivors of Friday night’s bomb attacks by Boko Haram on Nyanya and Kuje towns of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
LEADERSHIP learnt that on sighting President Buhari, the mother of the girl broke down in tears inside the Paediatric Ward of the hospital where her child was being treated.
The woman, identified as Mrs. Deborah Stephen, told the president that her daughter had been shot by armed robbers who raided their home and that the family could not afford the medical bills.
Special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, noted in a statement that Buhari “directed his chief of staff, Malam Abba Kyari, to settle the N268,790 medical bill” of the young girl right there at the hospital.
The president also assured survivors of the Nyanya and Kuje bomb attacks currently receiving treatment at the Trauma Centre of the National Hospital that the federal government would take full responsibility for settling their medical bills.
Noting that Buhari brought succour to the survivors of the bomb attacks, Adesina said the president wished them full and speedy recovery.
He further noted that the chief medical director of the hospital, Dr Jafaru Momoh, thanked the president for the visit, saying “it will help the patients’ recovery by giving them a greater psychological sense of being valued and loved by their country.”
The president who was accompanied by his personal aides and Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, was said to have visited the intensive care unit, the paediatric unit and general wards of the National Hospital.
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