President does not need surgical treatment - tests show Guyana Chronicle July 24, 1999 FURTHER medical tests in the United States have shown that President Janet Jagan does not need surgical treatment, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon announced last night. He said an angiography showed the President had a mild heart attack earlier this month when she was hospitalised here. But the angiography studies at the Akron City Hospital outside Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday found that there was no for angioplasty or a by-pass, Luncheon told the Chronicle. "The surgeons have recommended rest and physical rehabilitation and she would be released from the hospital tonight (last night) and after a few days more rest, will be back home", he reported. He explained that the President will not need surgical treatment and only medical treatment was warranted. At a press conference yesterday morning, he said the President Thursday concluded the first phase of non-invasive medical checks. He told the briefing at GTV Channel 11 in Georgetown that President Jagan arrived safely in Ohio and had "concluded the first phase in her non-invasive evaluations." A subsequent press release from the Office of the President confirmed that the President underwent the tests at the Akron City Hospital which she "tolerated well". Luncheon said the tests done recently in Trinidad indicated the need to have greater clarification. "The Trinidad evaluation was not of the most definitive quality...and that is why the emphasis was on approaching an environment where there was better technology to do some further investigation...the decision was made to go to Ohio," he told reporters. Luncheon said that non-evasive procedures mean x-rays, blood samples and exercises, while invasive was actually going into the body with scopes and other things. He reiterated the Ohio check would determine the need for pursuit of greater information involving invasive studies. He added: "We are perched at a point where the non-invasive studies are being comprehensively evaluated and they would point the way either to a definition that is adequate, and answer all of our concerns." "...and the need for invasive studies to go even further to get the kind of information that assures us that whatever therapeutic interventions are being put in place, that they are appropriate and timely," he added. Meanwhile, Luncheon said Finance Minister, Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo, holding the post for Trade, Industry and Tourism Minister, Mr. Michael Shree Chan will be one of the more lengthy acting appointments. He explained that this has resulted from information from Shree Chan's medical practitioner about what the future looks like. The Government has committed a month from his discharge from hospital on July 17 during which he will be receiving additional treatment. At the end of that period, his medical team should be able to provide him and the Government word on the prospects of his return to Guyana and to work, he said. "We are hoping that he would soon be rejoining the ranks of the administration, but we all realise that it would be the doctors and surgeons who would be calling the shots in the immediate short term," he said. Minister Shree Chan underwent brain surgery this month in the United States. A © page from: Guyana: Land of Six Peoples