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Jalbo prison administration delays urgent surgery needed by prisoner

Thursday 31-January-2008

NAZARETH (PIC)– The Arab member of the Israeli parliament Saeed Nafa sent a message to Israeli internal security minister Avi Dichter asking him to expedite treatment of a seriously ill prisoner.

The MP asked the minister to give instructions to the Jalbo prison authority to allow the open heart surgery for Bashr Al-Makt from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

Makt suffered a heart attack in June last year and underwent an operation to open one of his heart’s arteries. Doctors said that he still was in need of an open heart surgery but the prison authority delayed his treatment which led to another harder heart attack.

Nafa also asked the minister to allow the prisoner’s brother Sidki who is detained in the nearby Shatta prison to accompany his brother in the same prison in order to assist him.

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