Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is “in good health” following successful back surgery in Germany, Egypt’s Health Minister Mohammad Awad Tajeddin says.
Mr Tajeddin told state TV the president underwent surgery “for a slipped disc… and is currently in the recovery room” in the Munich Orthopaedic Centre.
Michael Mayer, German surgeon in charge of the operation, said Mr Mubarak, 76, would start walking on Sunday.
Uncertainty over Mr Mubarak’s health has caused concerns in Egypt.
On Wednesday, the president appeared on Egyptian television to reassure people he was still in control of state affairs.
During his absence, Mr Mubarak has delegated his duties to Prime Minister Atef Obeid.
Are there no back specialists in Egypt?Do they not have enough doctors or hospitals in Egypt?
The reality is the dictators are dispised so much everyone is itching to kill the likes of mubarak, these despots are so scared they go outside to europe and amerikka in case a doctor in egypt poisons them or accidently uses a scalple to cut or should we say mutilate a vital organ or two!
i would hazard a guess that medical technology/facilities and expertise in egypt is not at the same level as that of Germany.
PS- doctors take an oath to do their job which is saving lives, killing a patient base don their politicallikes or dislikes does not factor in their work.
PS2- you aint a doc are ya, if so, can u tell me which hospital so I avoid it. malto grazzie
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Egypt has private as well as some not so good public hospitals.
I don`t buy the story that Germany has too much high standard of doctors or facilities, yes they may have good doctors but so does egypt!
Lets face it the dictators are scared stiff of there own people and dont trust them one bit!
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I don't buy the story that Egypt has the same high standards of doctors or facilties, yes they maybe have good doctors but maybe not as good.
lets face it, the people who can afford it try and get the best treatment possible, whether it is in the country or abroad. I am sure Mobarak does not go to Germany to treat flu or some minor thing.
Are you saying that Egypt and Germany are at the same level in terms of skills of docs, modern facilities, specialists etc?
ak47 does have a point, not necessarily in health matters, but certainly in security issues. Like Americans providing security to Karzai, Pakistani ssg's for saud family, sikhs for indra gandhi (altho that one backfired)....
News of the president’s condition and foreign trip, released in advance, was in marked contrast to the normal silence in Cairo that surrounds his activities until last-minute details are given to the press.
The unusual openness appeared to have been forced on the authorities by the rampant rumours of serious ill-health.
**The obsession for secrecy is understandable. Mubarak has escaped at least 10 attempts on his life since he took power after Islamists assassinated president Anwar Sadat in 1981. Police were closely watching the Munich clinic. **
hmm police closely watching mubarak at clinic , feeling insecure is he!
If he does not trust his doctors in Egypt how can he trust his cooks. What is stopping them from poisoning him.
I feel it is only for the facilities that he has gone to Germany or maybe he wants to take a break.
Him going to Germany is all the more dangerous since most coups happen when the dictators are out of the country...
Regardless of whether or not doctors swear not to harm their patients, a paranoid dictator is unlikely to trust an oath that a medical student made just before graduation.
Bear in mind that Islamist normally attract many of the most educated in society, and that the Muslim Brotherhood, the main underground oppposition group in Egypt, draws most of its support from Egyptian professionals such as engineers and doctors.
Egyptian doctors have also been involved activity that goes beyond peaceful opposition and into the realm of political militancy. Dr. Ayman Al-Zwahiri, who was involved in the assasination of the former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, was a practicing doctor of medicine in Egypt, for example. More recently, this Egyptian doctor is now alleged to be Al-Qaida's operations chief.
I think ak47 is right - Mubarak must be paranoid, unsure of whether or not an Egyptian doctor operating on him would be politically opposed to him, and just how far the doctor would go in that opposition.
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PS- doctors take an oath to do their job which is saving lives, killing a patient base don their politicallikes or dislikes does not factor in their work.
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As I understand, Technically speaking, in Islam you cannot use a prevously sworn oath as an excuse not to do a righteous deed, let alone a wrong deed.
So if a Muslim doctor is treating a patient, and through some strange twisted logic he decides that assasinating that patient patient would be righteous, he would be morally freed from the obligation of the oath to save lives.
^ in that case i doubt anyone who understands islam would hartm a patient under his care regardless of what his political differences were, so the person in question could ignore the oath he swore to, but if he is a muslim then he would not harm someone who is under his care. however if he is a hypocrite and has some twisted ideas he may do so.