Security beefed up around Yusuf Buhari’s hospital

Four days after the only son of President Muhammadu Buhari, Yusuf, was involved in a motorbike crash in the Gwarinpa area of Abuja, reliable sources at the Cedacrest Specialist Hospital, located in Apo, Dutse District, told The Guardian that the patient may spend some more time at the facility before his fate would be determined.

The sources, which hinted that Yusuf’s condition requires close monitoring and attention after he was rushed there in coma, after suffering a head injury and multiple fractures added that, “the situation was clearly life-threatening, but they are working hard to restore him.”

>Initially, Presidency sources disclosed that President Buhari wanted his son stabilised before being flown abroad for improved medical care, but the severe injury Yusuf sustained to his head and two limbs that threw him into coma forced a rethink.

It was also learnt that speculations that Yusuf may have been flown abroad followed contacts earlier made by top government officials with a reputable hospital abroad to fly him in an air ambulance, before they were advised against flying him abroad in coma.
The Guardian, December 31, 2017

 

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