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Timor Leste president discharged from Aust hospital
Wed, Mar 19, 2008
AFP

>DARWIN, AUSTRALIA - TIMOR Leste's President Jose Ramos-Horta was discharged from hospital in Australia on Wednesday, five weeks after he was shot in an assassination attempt in Dili, hospital officials said.

A spokeswoman for the Darwin Private Hospital in northern Australia said Mr Ramos Horta was discharged on Wednesday morning.

He reportedly then visited the nearby Royal Darwin Hospital, where he also received treatment, to thank the doctors and nurses who helped him recover from gunshot wounds sustained in the Feb 11 attack.

 

 
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