BREAKING NEWS ԱՐԱԳ ԼՈՒՐ ------------------------------------- CYPRUS LOCAL NEWS 2014 Saturday 22 March 2014 ================ Defence Minister Tasos Mitsopoulos has died, his doctors said on Saturday afternoon. Doctors said Mitsopoulos’ health condition deteriorated further today and despite efforts he died at 1.30pm. “His family and Cyprus have lost an exceptional man, an exceptional politician,” Health Minister Philippos Patsalis said. He was married with two children. The 48-year-old minister was being treated at Nicosia general hospital’s intensive care unit after a ruptured aneurysm on Friday caused extensive haemorrhage. Earlier on Saturday, doctors said Mitsopoulos’ condition had deteriorated and was not considered reversible. Mitsopoulos was found unconscious in his office by his secretary, at around 10.30am on Friday. He previously had a meeting with the Greek ambassador Vassilis Papaioannou and was scheduled to meet with US ambassador John Koening. When he ran late for the second meeting, his secretary tried to call him on his office and on the mobile. When Mitsopoulos didn’t pick up, she knocked on the door and decided to enter when she got no response. Upon finding the minister unconscious, the secretary called an ambulance and notified a clinic next to the defence ministry. Doctors from the clinic rushed t the office and performed CPR until the ambulance arrived and took the minister to Nicosia General for emergency surgery. Defence Minister Tasos Mitsopoulos dies
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:39:23 +0000
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