VIRGINIA, October 12, 2017 (WAFA) – Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator and secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), was admitted on Thursday to the operating room at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia for a lung transplant, the head of the PLO’s General Delegation in the United States, Hosam Zomlot, said in a press statement
He said Erekat is in good condition and all tests were reassuring in terms of his readiness and the readiness of the specialized medical team to conduct the operation.
Erekat, 62, top Palestinian negotiator with Israel for the past 20 years, has been suffering from a debilitating lung disease that require lung transplant to be cured from it.
He has been on the lung transplant waiting list for few months and recently travelled to the United States to undergo transplant operation.
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