Intervention

“I have found Madonna to be an impressively solid person dedicated to her children and to the welfare of thousands of neglected orphans in Malawi.”

Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, M.D., M.P.H. in an exclusive interview with the Huffington Post, talking about how she has come to know Madonna a little bit through her work and how she has personally witnessed her compassion and motherly instincts more than once.

Sonia – who is also married to a brilliant thought leader and global citizen, Prof. Jeffry Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, and Special Advisor to the U.N. Secretary General on the Millennium Development Goals – is a public health specialist and serves as the health coordinator for the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Sonia is the pediatrician who was with Madonna in Malawi when the singer met one-year old David Banda and in her interview she explaings that the evening David left the orphanage to spend his first night with Madonna in a hotel in Lilongwe, he was very ill and could have died. Sonia simply credits Madonna for saving the David’s life.

“David would have died that evening or the following day if it were it not for Madonna. I can tell you with certainty that he would have died had he stayed in the orphanage,” Sonia says.

“The evening David was handed over to Madonna, he had a very high fever and was in acute respiratory distress — meaning he had difficulty breathing.”

“We took him to a private clinic, where a colleague and I examined him carefully, took a chest X-ray, diagnosed his respiratory infection, and treated him immediately with an inhaler, and intramuscular antibiotics. Lower respiratory infections like pneumonia are a common killer of so many children in Africa every year.”

Check out the entire interview on the online website of the Huffington Post.

Thanks to BabyGeorge.