Greek Premier’s Doctors Hold Out Hope
Doctors flown in from abroad to help treat ailing Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, hooked up to life-support systems, said Thursday that he still has a fighting chance.
“There is a chance of the prime minister recovering,” said Magdi Yacoub, a British surgeon who performed open heart surgery on Papandreou in 1988. But he said any recovery would not be “immediate or in the very near future.”
He was the last in a series of foreign specialists flown in to see Papandreou, 76, who was admitted to the hospital 10 days ago suffering from pneumonia.
Papandreou, the country’s first socialist leader, has been kept alive by a respirator and a dialysis machine supporting his kidneys.
Sources said behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing to choose a successor has been intense.
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