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Castro could govern again says doctor
A Spanish surgeon who examined Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he did not have cancer, was making excellent recovery and could return to govern the country.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:00 December 27, 2006
Madrid: A Spanish surgeon who examined Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he did not have cancer, was making excellent recovery and could return to govern the country.
Castro disappeared from the public eye after undergoing emergency surgery for intestinal bleeding in July.
Doctor Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido shunned frenzied public speculation about Castro's health, saying the communist leader was in good condition.
"His physical activity is excellent, his intellectual activity intact, I'd say fantastic, he's recovering from his previous operation," Garcia Sabrido, head of surgery at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon public hospital, told a news conference after returning from Cuba.
"He asks every day to return to work, but doctors advise him not to, to take it easy," said Sabrido.
"He does not have cancer, he has a problem with his digestive system," Sabrido told reporters. "President Castro has no malign inflammation, it's a benign process in which he has had a series of complications."
Castro supporters expressed relief at the doctor's comments.
"We hope that he will speak to the nation when he is well. We are anxious to know how he is," said a woman waiting at a bus stop. "I don't think there will be changes, Cuba will continue along the path he has shown us."
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