Castro 'is on the mend'
A SPANISH surgeon who has just examined the Cuban leader Fidel Castro said yesterday he is making a good recovery from intestinal surgery, does not have cancer and could return to governing his country.
Eighty-year-old Castro's disappearance from the public eye after emergency surgery for intestinal bleeding in July sparked frenzied speculation about his health, but the surgeon, Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, said the communist leader was in good condition.
"His physical activity is excellent, his intellectual activity intact, I'd say fantastic," the head of surgery at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon public hospital, told a news conference.
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