Chinedu Eze
6 October 2008
Lagos — Former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Victor Malu (rtd), was yesterday flown to Paris, France via the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos for medical treatment.
Malu, who was on life support and in coma, was brought to the Presidential Wing of the MMIA at 9.00am from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), where he had been hospitalised since September 25.
A Lear jet from Lufthansa Air Ambulance Services with registration D-CAPO, which conveyed him to France had arrived Lagos 8.30 pm Saturday with a three-man medical team.
According to a hospital source, the medical team had gone to LUTH in a Nigerian Army Medical Corps Intensive Care ambulance to monitor the patient till yesterday morning when he was flown out of the country.
The team was said to have monitored Malu throughout the night and supervised the conveying of the former Chief of Army Staff to the airport in company with his wife.
Several senior army officers, officials from the Presidency and family members were at the airport to see him off.
On September 25, Malu, who was said to be in coma, was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of LUTH at Idi-Araba, Lagos by family members.
According to the source, the patient is suffering from "left thalamic intracellular harmorghic with intraventricular extension", known as Type 2 diabetes.
He had been on life support since then.
According to the source, Malu could have been flown straight out of the country for treatment, but was too weak to make the journey, which culminated in his been taken to LUTH.
He said after staying at the hospital for 10 days, with no visible improvement, the patient had to be flown abroad for further treatment.
Malu was Commander of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) between 1996 and 1998 and supervised the disarmament of militias that fought in Sierra Leone.
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