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Boris Yeltsin Leaves Ward
// Fracture
The first Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who undergone an operation on the femoral neck last week, was discharged from hospital Saturday morning. Post-surgical stitches will be removed today, Vladimir Shevchenko, the former president’s chief of the protocol reported to Kommersant. Doctors refrain from saying when the first president will be able to walk without crutches.
A conference of specialist doctors was held on Friday night to discharge the first Russian president. Boris Yeltsin arrived at his suburban residence of Barvikha on Saturday at 10 o’clock in the morning. He already walks about the house on crutches which will soon be substituted by a cane, doctors say. They won’t predict anything so far. “It depends on how fast the bone will be knitting,” Vladimir Shevchenko told Kommersant. “Time will show.”
Yeltis was urgently taken on September 7 to the traumatic ward of the United Hospital and Polyclinic of the Chief Medical Department of the Russian presidential administration after he stumbled breaking the leg in Sardinia, Italy. A prosthetic appliance of the hip-bone joint was made the following day. Valery Zolotov, the hospital’s head physician, planned that Boris Yeltis would stay at hospital for some two weeks. “Boris Yeltsin with his forceful character will try to leave the hospital much earlier,” Vladimir Shevchenko, chief of the protocol of the first Russian president, supposed then.
According to Mr. Shevchenko, the doctors who operated on Boris Yeltsin “will control the health state of their patient but their permanent presence won’t be necessary any longer.” “The doctors are going to give him some physiotherapeutic treatment but now the main treatment for Boris Yeltsin is walking,” he explained. “Post-surgical stitches will be taken from him on Monday.”
Naina Yeltsina, who watched by his husband’s bed all the time, thanked the doctors. “She is glad that her husband is finally at home,” Mr. Shevchenko added. “Even walls heal at home.”
Yulia Osipova
All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 19, 2005
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