Slovak prime minister underwent another operation, remains in serious condition
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has undergone another operation two days after being shot multiple times and remains in serious condition, officials said Friday.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has undergone another operation after he was shot on Wednesday and remains in serious condition, the country's deputy prime minister and defence minister said Friday.
Fico, 59, was attacked as he was greeting supporters after a government meeting in the former coal mining town of Handlova. A suspected assailant has been arrested.
Miriam Lapunikova, director of the University F. D. Roosevelt hospital in Banska Bystrica, where Fico was taken by helicopter after he was shot, said Fico underwent a CT scan and is currently awake and stable in an intensive care unit. She described his condition as "very serious."
She said the surgery removed dead tissues that had remained inside Fico's body.
"I think it will take several more days until we will definitely know the direction of the further development," Robert Kaliniak, the defence minister and deputy prime minister, told reporters at the hospital.
Still, Kaliniak stressed that the government continues to work.
"The ministries are working on all their duties, nothing is frozen or halted, the country goes on," he told reporters. "The state is stable and today the patient is stable as well."
