HHO Leader Ivo Banac Rushed to Hospital after Collapsing
April 16th, 2008
Zagreb, April 16 (CP) – The Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO) president Ivo Banac was rushed to hospital on Wednesday morning in Zagreb after suffering symptoms similar to a heart attack during a radio interview.
The doctor treating Banac denied he suffered a heart attack, but claimed he fell pray to stress which he had a lot of during the past few days regarding the Pukanic scandal in which HHO offered help to journalist Pukanic’s wife Mirjana.
The doctor said that Banac would remain in hospital for a few days and should be released soon.
Banac, a staunch critic of first Croatian president Franjo Tudjman has recently become the president of the HHO NGO.
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