President Traian Basescu is at the Elias Hospital in order to undergo a disc hernia surgery, which will be performed by a team of doctors from the Elias, University and "Bagdasar Arseni" Hospitals.
According to the medical commission, President Traian Basescu is a medical emergency and it seems he had been suffering from back pains for quite some time.
Traian Basescu has been admitted to the Elias University Emergency Hospital on the 8th of May 2006 and has been diagnosed with "lumbar disc hernia (levels L4-L5) with root compression phenomena". As it is shown in a public statement of the Bucharest Emergency University Hospital (SUUB).
CONSULTATIONS
Yesterday, at approximately 5 oâclock in the afternoon, was in pre-surgery state. At the time the first edition of the newspaper went to print, Traian Basescu was to be transferred from the Elias Hospital to the University Hospital, for the surgery. Some of the members of the multidisciplinary team that will perform the surgery are Prof. Dr. Vlad Ciurea, neurosurgeon of the "Bagdasar Arseni" Hospital, Lect. Dr. Dan Voinescu, neurosurgeon of the Elias Hospital, Lect. Dr. Gabriel Iacob, neurosurgeon of the SUUB. The multidisciplinary commission has undergone all the details regarding the medical security of the patient, as Sorin Oprescu stated. He added that the members of the multidisciplinary commission have talked with neurosurgeons in Vienna, and they agreed with the conclusions of the Romanian commission.
MEDICAL EXAMINATION
The doctors presented the options to President Basescu. He chose to undergo the surgery in Romania and not abroad, and he wanted the surgery to be performed by Romanian doctors. The intervention will take from 60 to 120 minutes, it requires general anesthesia and it has the natural risks for such an intervention, Sorin Oprescu stated. As for the presence of a di