U.S. pop
star Madonna on Tuesday opened a children’s hospital wing that her charity
built in Malawi, saying it would make a difference in the lives of thousands of
children in the southern African country.
The Mercy
James Paediatric Surgery and Intensive Care Ward, which could accommodate 50
patients at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in the country’s
second-largest city, Blantyre, was named after one of the four children Madonna
adopted from Malawi.
According to
the UN, Raising Malawi, funded by Madonna’s charity, is the first specialised
health unit for children in the country of 18 million residents, which is among
the 20 poorest in the world. Madonna said at the opening ceremony that she
started planning to build the ward a decade ago when she was doing a
documentary on children with HIV in Malawi. The 58-year-old singer said her
legal battle to adopt Mercy James in 2009 was a fight which she won, adding
that “I fought for Mercy and I won. “I am here to say ‘never give up on your
dream. Love conquers. “If you do things with love in your heart, you will
conquer.” Madonna said the new paediatric ward would create superior learning
environment for training Malawi’s next generation of doctors so that the
country could be self-sufficient in that field. The President of Malawi, Peter
Mutharika, described Madonna as “a loving mother. “We can now have our children
with heart conditions undergo surgery; this centre is our national pride.”
SOURCE: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/madonna-opens-childrens-ward-malawi-hospital/
SOURCE: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/madonna-opens-childrens-ward-malawi-hospital/
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