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| East Timor president undergoes more surgery |
| 2008-02-13 |
| CANBERRA - Australian surgeons carried out a further operation on Wednesday on East Timor’s president, who remains seriously ill from triple gunshot wounds suffered in an assassination attempt, a senior doctor said. “The president underwent surgery this morning and we are very pleased with his progress, although he remains in a serious but stable condition,” Len Notaras, general manager of Royal Darwin Hospital, told Reuters. Rebel soldiers shot Jose Ramos-Horta outside his home in Dili on Monday. He was airlifted to Darwin on life support after treatment at an Australian military hospital in East Timor’s capital. Ramos-Horta has already had surgery to reconstruct his right lung, although Notaras refused to say what operation was carried out on Wednesday ahead of an afternoon press briefing by the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s family. Ramos-Horta is expected to stay in a medically induced coma until next week after two rounds of surgery to rebuild his lung and remove bullet fragments. One fragment remained in his body ahead of surgery on Wednesday. |
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