Few weeks after reports surfaced that the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development paid part of the hospital bills of former Enyimba and Kano Pillars Coach, Kadiri Ikhana, the Medical Director, alliance hospital, Dr. Christopher Otabor, who performed the surgery on the football legend has reacted to the report.
Speaking exclusively to ait.live, Dr. Otabor who treated Coach Ikhana out of his own free will as a fan of the ailing coach described the report of the ministry picking Ikhana’s medical bills as mischievious.
“We are talking about a bill of N10.5 million. A whole Federal Ministry of Sports. If they did that and kept quiet may be i would say they didn’t have money. But they paid N500,000 out of n10.5 million and then they are blowing it out without mentioning the amount, anybody who thinks that Federal Government has intervened in somebody’s health issues, i dont think that person would be thinking of anything less than 5 million naira, if it is not everything” Otabor said.
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When asked if he would be willing to accept any tangible payment by the ministry, the medical practitioner didn’t mince words, declaring he would welcome any appreciation for a work well done but harped on Kadiri Ikhana”s welfare as his priority first.
Coach Ikhana is 75 percent fit after undergoing 2 surgeries on his hips and should have undergone a third surgery on his spine, but the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and inter-state lockdown has led to the delay of the operation on the legend.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
