The surgery was successful, he added. Orthopedist Pavel Dungl, heading the team of surgeons who operated on Klaus, will provide more detailed information on the surgery this afternoon, Ochvat said. According to available information, Klaus, 66, suffered from problems with a hip joint for years, and this World javelin champion Špotáková criticizes Beijing games ...
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base after talks ... is why he received an artificial one. Klaus is to recover from the operation for three months. He said previously this was the reason why he would not be able to attend the Beijing Summer Olympics. He was to be operated on earlier this year, but he postponed the surgery over the presidential election. Klaus, former long-standing head and current honorary chairman of the senior ruling Civic Democratic Party (ODS), was re-elected president in February for the second and his last five-year term in office. Hip joint replacement is a standard surgery in the Czech Republic. Czech patients have to wait for it from two months up to two years.
(Ceske Noviny)
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