He can’t recover — Doctor

Nigerians have been advised to ignore the media report that president Umaru Musa Yar Adua will resume duties at Aso Rock as soon as he recovers because such a time will never come. This is the candid advice of Dr Noruwa Y. Eronmwon, a cardiologist and Intensive Care Unit expert.

According to Noruwa, the president’s wife, Turai is afraid of pulling the plug as the Saudi medical personnel must have told her that her husband’s state is hopeless.
“Medically, I don’t see a way out. I guess his wife is afraid to pull the plug. This might just be for them to have political leverage. Mr. President is medically sustained by the vent. Without the ventilator, he will not survive three hours’. She said the president is in a state of vegetable and it might do him well if he is left to die in peace.

“President Yar’Adua is in a vegetative state and might never recover from this state. My medical recommendation is for the artificial respiratory device to be removed to let the President die gracefully and rest in peace”, he said.
The United States based medical expert said Yar’Adua would need, a Ventilator, oxygen, cardiac monitor, dialysis machine, triple lumen catheter, swan Ganz catheter, TPN, I.V. fluids and two ICU nurses.

According to him, the president also requires the services of a cardiologist, nephrologists, respiratory therapist, echocardiogram each day, piccolo electrolyte monitor, I-stat monitor for blood work and daily chest x-ray and a rotorest bed. She stressed the need for constant power supply around the president and dismissed the talk of rechargeable life-support chip in the president’s heart. “No, there is no such thing as a rechargeable life support chip. He might have a pacemaker in him, not a life support chip. That little machine in the heart helps to pace the heart, it does not jump-start the heart. It only helps to regulate a working heart and not an infected heart’.

She queried the rationale behind bringing the president home in his state of health as the nation’s medical equipment and epileptic power supply might worsen his condition. “I believe we might have capable cardiologists that could take care of him. However, the kind of equipment needed to keep him breathing cannot be sustained with our type of electricity.

The president will need a respiratory therapist for his vent; he will also need certified ICU nurses with a concentration in cardiac monitoring and multiple organ failure”. She concluded that it would only take miracle for the president to recover. “It will only be by a miracle that the president’s survival will happen”. President Umaru Musa Yar Adua was smuggled into the country in the wee hours of Wednesday night with air-ambulance amid tight security. He has issued a statement saying he would resume as soon as he recovers.Before his return, Dr Noruwa had predicted he would only come back by air-ambulance some weeks ago.


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