Kanu Heart Foundation N5 billion ($35M) Specialist Cardiac Centre Fundraiser

Date:    Thursday, March 14, 2013

Venue:  Congress Hall Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.  Time 5 pm.

Aim:      To build a Cardiac Specialist Hospital that will offer free surgery services for children from       1-12 years while adult patients will be highly subsidized.

•  Kanu Heart Foundation has carried out 452 open-heart surgeries since inception in 2000.

•  All surgeries done in foreign countries like England, Israel, India, and Sudan.

•  Capital flight involved is much.

•  Federal government of Nigeria has given the Kanu Heart Foundation a piece of land in Abuja for the project.

•   The Cardiac Specialist Hospital is a 40 beded Hospital with State of the Artificialities.

•   Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonthan is the Special Guest of honour while Former President Chief Olusegun Obansanjo and Ibrahim Babangida are Father of the Day and Chairman respectively.