Hospital In India Confirms Charles Sirleaf’s Illness

A Hyderabad Eye Institute Organization named “LV Prasad Eye Institute” on the Kallam Anji Reddy Campus in Hyderabad, India has confirmed that the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) official, Charles Sirleaf needed immediate medical treatment on his eyes condition.
In a communication dated January 13, 202, under the signature of the International Patient Relation Administrator, V. Prasad Rao, to Liberia’s Solicitor General, Saayma Syrinous Cephus, the Institute informed the government that Mr. Sirleaf has developed graft rejection in his eyes which required advance equipment and expertize which are not available in Liberia or neighbouring countries.
Recently, the government and defense lawyers reached an agreement surrounding Central Bank of Liberia’s embattled Deputy for Operations, Charles Sirleaf’s request to seek medical treatment abroad.
The two legal teams reached the decision last Friday during a conference with Associate Justice Yussif Kaba at the Supreme Court; an agreement which was confirmed by Liberia’s Solicitor General who allowed for defendant Sirleaf treatment abroad to only be restricted to India.
Meanwhile, in a copy of the letter addressed Cllr. Cephus which is in the possession of this paper attests that Mr. Sirleaf has been a patient of that institute for severe corneal problems since December 2012.
“On his first visit with us, he was diagnosed to have a failed corneal transplant in his left eye. As per the history. He had corneal transplant surgery in his eye in 1979 and in the right eye in 1981 elsewhere. Following this, he had cataract surgery in his right eye in 2010 and in the left eye in 2011,” the institute recounted Sirleaf’s medical history.
It revealed that it was on the advice of the doctors in Liberia and other African countries that he go to that specialized eye hospital at that stage and the administrator told reported that on this first visit on December 5, 2012, his vision was poor in both eyes with only 20/400 in the right eye and hand movements in the left eye.
“Both the corneas showed evidence to edema. No other abnormality could be detected in either eye. The situation was explained and a repeat corneal graft with exchange of IOL implant and anterior vitrectomy was recommended in the left eye. He underwent this procedure on December 7, 2012,’ the communication further narrated.
“A special type of scleral contact lens PROSE lens was recommended for his right eye and was flitted with it. He was discharged with the advice to return for follow-up in sex months. He continued to do well in the right eye but his left eye condition deteriorated and needed another corneal transplant this was done on December 4, 2015. This has also failed leading to yet another transplant in July 2017,” the eye institute explained.
Prasad said the vision in Sirleaf’s right eye also has deteriorated with an ectatic cornea and failed corneal transplant in the left eye and that two visiting cornea specialists to Monrovia evaluated his condition and advised a lamellar form of corneal transplant for the left eye.
However, according to Prasad, Sirleaf was then advised to go back to the L.V.Prasad Eye Institute where according to him, was as a result of his long treatment history with that institute.