Ex-Eagles Star, Kanu Nwankwo Sets Sights On Building A Cardiac Hospital

Former Super Eagles captain, Kanu Nwankwo, has revealed that his dream is to build a state-of-the-art Cardiac Specialist Hospital in Nigeria to help indigent children with heart diseases in the country.

The football legend stated this in Enugu on Wednesday while commemorating  the 2022 World Heart Day marked every Sept. 28.

He said  if achieved, the center would fill the yawning gap in the health sector for the treatment of heart related diseases and reduce medical tourism to foreign countries like India, America, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

“Our dream in the Kanu Heart Foundation (KHF) is to build a cardiac specialist center in Nigeria to save Nigerians especially indigent children with cardiac ailments but it is not what Kanu can do alone now.

“We need support from governments, corporate bodies, well-meaning Nigerians to achieve it,” he said.

Nwankwo urged governments to channel energy and funds to the health sector noting that many people died on a daily basis in Nigeria due to lack of adequate health facilities.

He said that the foundation had sponsored over 600 heart surgeries between 2000 and 2022 with 80 per cent of the operations done in India.