Iraqi PM flies to London for heart check-up

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Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki flew to London on Sunday for health checks after doctors in the capital briefly inserted a catheter into his heart two months ago, an Iraqi government spokesman said.
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"The prime minister has left for London to have medical checks. He already had an appointment with the doctor who made a heart catheter for him before," government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told Reuters, adding that Maliki was in good health.

Cardiac catheterisation is an initial procedure to check for any heart problems.

Maliki, who is in his late 50s, flew to London on December 29 for medical tests. An official in his office at the time said the prime minister had been suffering from mild exhaustion.

Read more: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080224/tpl-uk-iraq-maliki-health-43a8d4f.html

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Yep, nobody seems to have carbombed your heart yet ...

[kskiska]

1. Did he go to London because he doesn't have insurance?

Wouldn't the U.S. admit him?

[bluesmail]

2. That was my first thought too.

[acmavm]

6. Sheesh. Did the same thought hit everybody at once?

[tanyev]

3. How nice that he can just pop over to London for medical care.

Millions of his citizens have no such option.

[saigon68]

4. I'm sure his dozens of Blackwater Mercenary Guards

Are loving a little Out Country R & R

[tuckessee]

5. Meanwhile......

...health care for the liberated masses is virtually non-existent.

[daleo]

7. What's the problem with Baghdad's hospitals?

Doesn't he think his government can provide adequate health care?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. But the US has the best healthcare!?!

:banghead: