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President Kufuor on Monday visited Madam Fathia Nkrumah, Ghana's premier First Lady at the Nile Badrawi Hospital in Cairo, according to The Accra Daily Mail.
Madam Nkrumah, 75, President Nkrumah's widow, has been hospitalized at the facility for the past four months for ill-health.
At the hospital to receive President Kufuor were Gamel Nkrumah, President Nkrumah's eldest son, senior members of Fathia's family and a senior priest of the Coptic Church.
Gamel Nkrumah, in a brief interview, expressed his family's gratitude to President Kufuor and the people of Ghana and described the President as the gentleman he is reputed to be.
President Kufuor wished the former First Lady speedy recovery.
The President is in the final leg of his visit that saw him meet with the European Union (EU), the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations; the African Union (AU) and the Arab League.
He was to attend the inauguration of President Yar’Adua of Nigeria on Tuesday.
Source: The Accra Daily Mail
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