Former President Miloš Zeman started rehabilitation in the Motolsk hospital after an operation and completed a short walk training session with a walker. However, he remains in the intensive care unit. Even though the laboratory results are improving, the medical council still assesses his condition as serious, the Motol University Hospital said in a press release today. Doctors still do not want to estimate how long the hospitalization will last. At the end of the week, however, the ex-president could be transferred to an internal clinic.
Last Thursday, the seventy-nine-year-old Zeman in Motola underwent unplanned surgery due to critical lack of blood in his leg caused by a blood clot. During the procedure, the doctors removed the clot and performed an angioplasty. Due to the swelling, they had to perform a so-called operation on him fasciotomy, that is, to cut the covers of the muscles, the hospital announced on Monday.
According to today’s statement of the eight-member medical council, Zeman is in a stable condition, conscious and has started rehabilitation. “After the partial subsidence of the swelling, one of the two fasciotomies was successfully closed, the remaining one is being intensively treated. The length of hospitalization cannot yet be predicted, but if the established trend continues, we plan to transfer to an internal clinic at the end of this week,Pavlína Danková, spokeswoman for the Motol hospital, informed. More information will be provided by the doctors at the briefing on Friday morning.
Through his Facebook profile, Zeman thanked people for their wishes for recovery. “I have decided that I will fulfill your wish and that I will not leave Czech politics, but that I will try to continue to be with you, with your concerns and with your needs, as a simple Czech citizen Miloš Zeman,” he stated without further details.
