by Ayhan Uyanik and Jan Lopatka
BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (Reuters) – Doctors of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was seriously injured by gunfire, will meet on Monday to assess his state of health and consider his possible transfer to Bratislava, the country’s capital, media reported on Friday local.
A medical council will meet on Monday to assess the state of health of the Slovak Prime Minister in the event of his repatriation to Bratislava, the news site aktuality.sk reported, citing the director of the hospital in which he was been admitted.
The Prime Minister, 59, who was shot five times at close range after a government meeting in the town of Handlova, underwent five hours of surgery after being hospitalized in critical condition.
Robert Fico’s state of health is stabilized but remains worrying, said Thursday the director of the FD Roosevelt University Hospital in Banska Bystrica, in central Slovakia, located some 200 km east of Bratislava, the capital city.
Peter Pellegrini, president-elect of Slovakia, said Thursday that he was able to speak with the head of government “able to speak”.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told public radio Friday that his Slovak counterpart was “between life and death.”
The two leaders, close to Russia, recently criticized arms deliveries to Ukraine by Western countries.
(Reporting Ayhan Uyanik, Jan Lopatka, Gergeley Szakacs, Pawel Florkiewicz; French version Zhifan Liu, editing by Kate Entringer)
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