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US performer Madonna visits the paediatric surgery and Malawi's first ever intensive care unit under construction at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre. (Photo: AP)
Blantyre: Pop star Madonna paid a visit to a hospital project funded by her charity in Blantyre, Malawi at the weekend, inspecting progress on the construction of a pediatric surgery and intensive care unit.
Madonna, whose Raising Malawi charity says the children's unit in Queen Elizabeth Central hospital will open in early 2017, arrived with her two children adopted from Malawi, David and Mercy.
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