ALGIERS, April 29 (BERNAMA-NNN-APS) -- Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been flown to a hospital in Paris after suffering a stroke here over the weekend, is responding well to treatment and the damage is not irreversible, says the Director of the National Centre of Sports Medicine, Professor Rachid Bougherbal.
"No motor or sensory function was impaired," Professor Bougherbal told APS on Sunday. The transient ischemic attack "did not last long" and the affection is "reversible," he stressed, adding that President Bouteflika would have a complete health check-up and was "recovering from the fatigue caused by the ailment".
Meanwhile, the Office of Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said in a statement here Sunday that the medical condition of President Bouteflika did not give rise to any concern.
"Following the transient ischemic attack (mild stroke) without complications which President Bouteflika had yesterday (Saturday), the additional medical examinations, conducted at Paris Hospital of Val-de-Grace, confirmed that his health does not give rise to any concern," the statement said.
"Thus, the activities of national life will continue to run normally," the statement added.
President Bouteflika was flown to the hospital in Paris on Saturday evening to undergo a supplementary medical examination, a medical source said Saturday.
The president's state of health was stable and "does not raise any particular concern". His doctors, however, prescribed him supplementary medical examinations and few days of rest, said the source.
-- BERNAMA-NNN-APS
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Algerian President Responding Well To Treatment Following Stroke