Robert Corbin returns

May 24, 2009 News

Opposition Leader Robert Corbin has returned to Guyana after treatment in the US for an ailment that is yet to be disclosed.

Robert Corbin

This newspaper has learnt that the party leader was greeted at the at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport at about 8:30hrs yesterday by members of the party’s executive. This welcome was followed by a special prayer breakfast held for him at his Republic Park residence
On Saturday April 25, Corbin was admitted to Woodlands Hospital after he had drien himself there and complaining of feeling unwell and suffering pains in his chest.
The following day, he was transferred to the Caribbean Heart Institute and was later medivacced to the United States on April 27 at the expense of the government.
Corbin was initially hospitalised at the Heart Centre, St. Francis Hospital, Long Island, where he underwent tests, evaluation and medical procedures, including angiography, which, according to reports, ruled out any heart complications.
Following his discharge, Mr. Corbin was subjected to a series of other medical tests and evaluation and subsequently underwent the surgery.