President Muhammadu Buhari Sunday in Abuja demonstrated his softer side when he ordered his chief of staff, Malam Abba Kyari to pay the N268, 790 hospital bill of a young girl in the paediatric ward of the National Hospital, Abuja.
Buhari was in the hospital on another mission, to bring succour to survivors of Friday night’s bomb attacks on Nyanya and Kuje suburbs in the Federal Capital Territory, when the mother of the young girl broke into tears, on seeing him.
The girl’s mother Deborah Stephens told him that her daughter had been shot by robbers who raided their home and that the family could not afford the medical bills.
On a visit to the survivors of the bomb attack who are receiving treatment at the Trauma Centre, President Buhari wished them full and speedy recovery.
The President reassured the survivors that the Federal Government will take full responsibility for settling their medical bills.
The President who was accompanied by his personal aides and Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, visited the intensive care unit and general wards of the National Hospital.
Expressing his appreciation of the President’s visit, the Chief Medical Director of the National Hospital, Dr Jafaru Momoh said that it will help the patients’ recovery by giving them a greater psychological sense of being valued and loved by their country.