ZAGREB, Feb 25 (Hina) - A doctors' team from the Amsterdam University Hospital, assigned by The Hague war crimes tribunal, on Thursday arrived in Zagreb and checked Mladen Naletilic Tuta at the Hospital for Persons Deprived of
Liberty. At their request, a strain test was performed on the war crimes suspect, with markedly pathological results indicating the patient's heart muscle even after several interventions was not sufficiently supplied with blood. The Dutch doctors will forward their findings to The Hague tribunal, read a statement signed on Friday by Dr Ivo Cikes, head of the Rebro Clinic for Conditions of the Heart. The statement says the Dutch doctors viewed all medical documentation relative to the course of Naletilic's therapy at the Rebro heart clinic, consulted cardiologists, and viewed images of interventions performed on the coronary arteries of the patient's heart. CD copies were made o
ZAGREB, Feb 25 (Hina) - A doctors' team from the Amsterdam
University Hospital, assigned by The Hague war crimes tribunal, on
Thursday arrived in Zagreb and checked Mladen Naletilic Tuta at the
Hospital for Persons Deprived of Liberty.
At their request, a strain test was performed on the war crimes
suspect, with markedly pathological results indicating the
patient's heart muscle even after several interventions was not
sufficiently supplied with blood.
The Dutch doctors will forward their findings to The Hague
tribunal, read a statement signed on Friday by Dr Ivo Cikes, head of
the Rebro Clinic for Conditions of the Heart.
The statement says the Dutch doctors viewed all medical
documentation relative to the course of Naletilic's therapy at the
Rebro heart clinic, consulted cardiologists, and viewed images of
interventions performed on the coronary arteries of the patient's
heart. CD copies were made of all relevant findings and
angiographic pictures.
Consultations were also held with psychiatrist Vinko Gruden, who is
treating Naletilic at the Hospital for Persons Deprived of
Liberty.
The Dutch doctors' team, which includes cardiologist Dr R. Tukkie
and intensive care specialist E. J. van Leshout, visited Zagreb on
the same duty last November.
Naletilic was transferred from the Rebro clinic to the Hospital for
Persons Deprived of Liberty on February 15. He is receiving heart
and psychiatric treatment from the doctors' team from Rebro, in
cooperation with doctors from the latter hospital.
In late 1998, The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for
the Former Yugoslavia charged Naletilic with crimes against
humanity, serious breaches of the Geneva Convention and the laws
and customs of war, committed as the commander of a so called
"convicts' battalion" during the Croat-Muslim conflict in Bosnia-
Herzegovina in 1993.
A Croatian Constitutional Court decision on Naletilic's
extradition was postponed due to his poor health condition, which
was confirmed by The Hague tribunal doctors' team last November.
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