The notable pop celebrity, Madonna, has again shown that celebrities are down-to-earth people. She returned to Malawi to celebrate the first anniversary of a medical facility, Mercy James Centre for Paediatric Surgery and Intensive Care, at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre named after one of the four children she adopted earlier.
It will be recalled that she funded the center through her Raising Malawi charity.
The pop star toured the facility on Tuesday and was delighted with the services it is rendering, whose highlights include the first successful separation of conjoined twins in Malawi. Madonna met the mother and aunt of the twins. She says they have been through a lot and it was good to “give them hope.”
Madonna said it is “amazing” that a lot of lives have been saved at Mercy James Centre and “that makes all the difference.”
She recalled that “there was no intensive care unit for children in the southern Africa nation. So it means a lot to me that we have been functioning well.”
Madonna also said she was pleased to meet parents of the conjoined twins who were separated at the Mercy James Centre. “I met the mom and the aunt. I gave them hugs. They have been through a lot, but now we are hopeful that the babies will be fine,” the pop singer enthused.
The twin boys, aged four and a half at the time, were referred to the facility from Balaka District Hospital in March and were successfully operated in June by paediatric surgeons.
