Chelsea star DIDIER DROGBA: Now the war in Ivory Coast is over, I can build my country a £3m hospital
Posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 by The Sun
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As Drogba walked round the site in one of the poorest suburbs of Abidjan, he spoke passionately to The Sun about his dream.
He said: "I am already excited. I can't wait for this hospital to be built.
"But for the war it would have been open now. We are going to do it, we are going to work hard."
The inspiration to build the hospital came out of a series of tragedies.
Nearly three years ago, just before Drogba played a World Cup qualifier for the Ivory Coast against Malawi, a wall collapsed at the national stadium claiming 19 lives.
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