The President of the Republic Mr Nicos Anastasiades visited last night the Deputy Minister to the President Mr Petros Demetriou at the private hospital where he is being treated after feeling unwell today.
In a statement to the media, Dr. Marinos Sotiriou, the physician of the Deputy Prime Minister's private hospital American Heart Institute, told reporters yesterday that "Mr. Demetriou presented himself urgently to the First Aid Department today and presented with unstable angina.
After diagnostic tests it was determined that he suffers from a congenital heart disease where the artery that feeds the heart, the right artery in particular, was starting at the wrong point, had an abnormal bifurcation, and was actually causing these symptoms, requiring emergency open-heart surgery to correct the problem.
Mr. Demetriou is in intensive care, his health is stable, he will stay in the hospital for 24 hours, will soon be able to return to his home and then to his duties, and is expected to make a full recovery without any particular problems."
(PM/MG/EXP)
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