Cromwell Hospital

The hospital, which was designed by Holder Mathias,[1] was established by Bank of Credit and Commerce International to provide healthcare for the Abu Dhabi royal family in April 1981. The finance for the construction of this purpose-built facility was arranged by Pakistani banker and philanthropist Agha Hasan Abedi.[2]

The hospital was bought by international healthcare company group Bupa in 2008.[3]

The hospital has established an international reputation for treating liver and kidney infections. In 1987, two Rover SD1s of the Metropolitan Police Service set a record by transporting a liver transplant from London Stansted Airport to the hospital, completing the 27 mile journey in under 30 minutes, to save the life of Ms Aliza Hillel in a journey subsequently nick-named the Liver Run.[4]

Patients have included:

• The Nigerian musician and playwright Chief Hubert Ogunde, who died at the hospital in April 1990[5]
• The English actress Margaret Lockwood, who died from liver disease in the hospital in July 1990[6]
• The Pakistani musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who died from a cardiac arrest at the hospital in August 1997[7]
• The former footballer George Best,[8] who died from multiple organ failure at the hospital in November 2005[9]
• The former First Lady of Kenya Lucy Kibaki, who died of a heart attack at the hospital in April 2016[10]

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