Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is definitely not entirely healthy and has heart problems, but his condition does not require hospitalisation, but treatment and certain preventive measures, according to doctors.
Speaking to reporters after Sanader was released from hospital on Monday, the head of the Zagreb Clinic Hospital's (KBC) coronary unit, Davor Milicic, said that Sanader's therapy was not very complicated and that it contained a combination of several medicines.
Milicic said that Sanader received the same treatment as any other person with such a diagnosis.
He said that in a month's time the former PM was expected to undergo again two examinations, namely wear a Holter device to monitor his heart activity and blood pressure.
A trial for war profiteering was to have started against Sanader last Friday, on the charges that in the mid-1990s he took 3.6 million kuna in commission for a loan the Austrian Hypo bank granted Croatia. A new hearing was scheduled for Thursday, November 3.
Sanader was in hospital since last Friday after Judge Ivan Turudic at the first hearing before the Zagreb County Court, before the arraignment, accepted the opinion of an expert witness that the former PM was not fit to stand trial due to health problems. Sanader then underwent a coronarography which showed certain changes on his heart arteries but not such that would require surgery. Sanader was detained in hospital until today to complete the necessary examinations.
Sanader was returned to Zagreb's Remetinec prison around 1.40 pm, after he was discharged from hospital, said the head of the Department for the Prison System, Branko Peran.
