GERMANY: BERLIN HEART CLINIC SAYS FORMER RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN IS IN GOOD HEALTH FIVE YEAR AFTER HEART BYPASS SURGERY

Record ID: 443015

  • Title: GERMANY: BERLIN HEART CLINIC SAYS FORMER RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN IS IN GOOD HEALTH FIVE YEAR AFTER HEART BYPASS SURGERY
  • Date: 17th December 2001
  • Summary: (U4) BERLIN, GERMANY (DECEMBER 17, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. EXTERIOR BERLIN HEART CLINIC WHERE FORMER RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN WAS EXAMINED 0.05 2. SCU EXTERIOR OF WINDOW OF ONE OF THE ROOMS IN THE CLINIC 0.08 3. SLV DOORWAY WITH SIGN DEUTSCHE HERZZENTRUM, BERLIN WITH LOGO OF HEART (2 SHOTS) 0.16 4. SLV CAMERA CREWS WALKING INTO ROOM OF CLINIC 0.23 5. PAN FROM ROLAND HERTZER, DIRECTOR OF CLINIC TO BOOK SHELVES IN ROOM 0.28 6. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) ROLAND HETZER, DIRECTOR OF BERLIN GERMAN HEART CENTRE SAYING: "The result of our consultation is that the results of the operation which had taken place five years ago is still excellent. The function of the heart is now better than it was before the operation five years ago and on the whole we can say that his general health condition is excellent." 0.58 7. SLV HETZER BEING INTERVIEWED 1.05 8. SCU PAINTING ON WALL GIVEN TO HETZER BY PATIENT FROM UKRAINE SHOWING HANDS SURROUNDING A HEART 1.16 FRANKFURT, GERMANY (FILE: OCTOBER 20, 2000) (REUTERS) 9. VARIOUS, YELTSIN WITH WIFE NANA, PROMOTING HIS BOOK AT ANNUAL FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR (8 SHOTS) 2.32 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVACY9PA18VRERYHDUSPELSGJYF0
  • Story Text: Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin is in very good
    health, according to the German clinic which examined him five
    years after major heart bypass surgery.



    Roland Hetzer, director of the German Heart Centre
    in Berlin, said on Monday (December 17) that the 70-year-old
    former Russian leader had come to Germany to seek a second
    opinion after an examination by doctors in Moscow.

    "We have found that the result of the heart operation five
    years ago is still very good. His heart condition today is
    still considerably better than before the operation and
    overall this is a very good result," Hetzer said.

    Yeltsin was first elected in 1991 and his second term as
    president was marked by long absences from the public eye and
    frequent stays in hospital because of heart, respiratory and
    other ailments.

    Soon after re-election for a second term in 1996, Yeltsin
    told the Russian public he was to have major heart surgery and
    the Kremlin admitted he had suffered several heart attacks
    during the election campaign.

    Rumours have abounded since his resignation on New Year's
    Eve 1999 of a sharp deterioration in his health and his public
    appearances have become rarer.


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