[UPDATED VERSION] The Star’s SMS alert at 4:50pm.
Former PM Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s condition stable after his 2nd bypass surgery at IJN, doctors happy with operation, says daughter Marina.
Today’s media statement from Institut Jantung Negara (IJN) by Tun’s personal aide Sufi Yusoff.
MEDIA STATEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEInstitut Jantung Negara, 4 September… YABhg Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad has successfully undergone coronary bypass surgery at the Institut Jantung Negara (IJN) today.
Currently Tun Dr Mahathir is warded at the Intensive Care Unit of the IJN where his condition will be observed for the next few days as is routine in post-bypass surgery. The next 48-hours is the crucial period in his post operative care and hence he will be under close observation in Intensive Care Unit by a team of doctors and nurses. Overnight, he will be fully sedated.
Earlier, Tun Dr Mahathir was taken into the Operation Theatre Complex at 8.45am where immediate family members were allowed to see him before he was brought into the Operating Theatre. The operation commenced at 9.40am and was completed at 3.05pm. He was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit at 3.30pm.
Doctors are happy that the procedure progressed as anticipated and his vital parameters thus far are stable.
Tun Dr Mahathir was operated on by a panel of surgeons led by Tan Sri Dr Yahya Awang. The other members of the surgical team are Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery of the Mayo Clinic, Prof Dr Hartzell Schaff, Dato Dr Rozali Wathooth, Dato Dr Azhari Yakub, Dato Dr Venugopal Balchand and Dr Mohamed Ezani Mohd Taib.
The anaesthetic team led by Dato Dr Mohd Hassan Mohd Ariff included Dr Sharifah Suraya Syed Tahir, Dato Dr Syed Abdul Aziz Syed Zain and Dr Nor Azlina Abdul Jalil. The panel of doctors is headed by IJN’s Medical Director, YBhg Dato Seri Dr. Robaayah Zambahari and includes consultant nephrologists Dato Dr Zaki Morad Mohd Zaher, Dr Ghazali Ahmad and consultant gastroenterologist, Dr S Ganeshanathan.
Tun Dr Mahathir had been admitted to Institut Jantung Negara on Sunday for the elective coronary bypass surgery.
IJN will continue to issue updates as and when there is significant change in Tun Dr Mahathir’s condition. Doctors have also advised against Tun Dr Mahathir receiving visitors apart from immediate family members.
[UPDATED VERSION at 12:03hr, 3 September 2007] Tun Mahathir was admitted to hospital in preparation for scheduled heart surgery on Tuesday, his son Mokhzani Mahathir said.
Let’s pray for Tun.
By the way, Tun underwent a coronary bypass operation in 1989 at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital following a heart attack.
This shows that Tun has confidence in local medical expertise, hence he prefers to stay back in Malaysia and receives the treatment, unlike many of the hypocrites in the cabinet who promotes national school or local tertiary education but with their kids at international school or universities abroad as well as seeking medical treatment overseas, with Australia as the preferred destination.
Meanwhile, please find the media statement from Institut Jantung Negara (IJN) by Tun’s personal aide Sufi Yusoff.
MEDIA STATEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEInstitut Jantung Negara, 3 September… YABhg Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad was admitted to Institut Jantung Negara yesterday (Sunday, September 2, 2007). This is in preparation for an elective coronary bypass surgery.
The surgery will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 at IJN.
This is Tun Dr Mahathir’s second coronary bypass. The first was done in 1989.
Tun Dr Mahathir will be attended to by a panel of doctors headed by YBhg Dato Seri Dr. Robaayah Zambahari, IJN’s Medical Director. YBhg Tan Sri Dr Yahya Awang who was the cardiac surgeon responsible for performing the first cardiac coronary bypass on Tun Dr Mahathir will be heading the surgery team.
Doctors have advised against Tun Dr Mahathir receiving any visitors with the exception of immediate family members.
For media enquiries please contact Sufi Yusoff
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As a human, I do hope nothing goes wrong with his health and that the surgery will go well.
As a Malaysian, I hope we will live until 2020.
Tun,praying for a speedy recovery.All the best!
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semoga allah pelihara perjalanan pembedahan dengan selamat. amin
he’s my hero! semoga Allah perlihara kesihatan dan keselamatan Tun!
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I have not met Tun Dr Mahathir but i can only say ..is that nobody can replace him. Hope god bless him .. with my age….
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