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Liberia: Johnson-Sirleaf is Fit
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The NEWS (Monrovia)
29 April 2008
Posted to the web 29 April 2008
Jimmey C. Fahngon
Monrovia
Amidst media report that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was suffering from cancer, Presidential Press Secretary Cyrus Wleh Badio says the President was fit and excellent in health.
Speaking Monday at his regular press briefing at the Foreign Ministry in Monrovia, Mr. Badio said having undergone a weeklong medical examination at the Bridgeport General Hospital in Connecticut, the United States of America, the President was given a clean bill of health.
He said Johnson-Sirleaf's medical examination was conducted under the supervision of several physicians who worked in the Bridgeport Yale University system.
Badio added that the President's son, Dr. Adamah Sirleaf, who is also a physician at the Bridgeport General Hospital, was part of the exercise.
He said as part of the medical examination, President Johnson-Sirleaf endured a stress test with an intensity closed to a similar one she underwent in preparation for the 2005 elections.
The Presidential Press Secretary told reporters that the President was now in Washington, D.C. where she is holding informal meetings with a number of the International Senior Lawyers Project, a team of international lawyers assisting government on a pro bono basis with concession negotiations involving a few potential investors.
He disclosed that President Johnson-Sirleaf would Tuesday leave for Fort Worth, Texas, to deliver a keynote address at the Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church which is expected to host thousands of delegates.
Badio said the President would use her address to the Global Methodist Conference to thank the Church for its support for Liberia over the years and highlights the challenges the country faces.
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According to him, the President would return to New York Wednesday at a forum held under the auspices of the International Crisis Group to receive an award from the group.
He said President Johnson-Sirleaf would conclude her trip to the United States Friday with an address at Indiana University where she is to receive an honorary degree from that institution.
It can be recalled that a local newspaper Monday reported that the Liberian leader was reportedly suffering from cancer which made her to go for medical check-up to the United States.
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