BLANTYRE, Malawi: US pop superstar Madonna was due Tuesday to formally open a children’s hospital wing that her charity has built in Malawi and which is named after one of her four adopted Malawian children. The Mercy James pediatric hospital unit in Blantyre, the country’s second city, has taken two years to build and includes three operating theatres and a 50-bed ward. Madonna, who set up the charity in 2006, has been a regular visitor to Malawi, taking Mercy and David last year when she inspected ongoing work at the children’s hospital wing. “Malawi needs such kind-hearted people to prosper,” Malita Ndau, a 20-year-old woman selling doughnuts in Blantyre, told Agence France-Presse. The new hospital wing opened to patients last week and has already performed its first surgery.

Source: Manila Times July 11, 2017 11:15 UTC