Meir Dagan, the former chief of the Israel's intelligence agency Mossad, has returned to his home country after having a liver transplant in Belarus, Israeli news websites reported on October 28.
Israeli doctors described the 67-year-old man's condition as stable. He is to undergo a lengthy rehabilitation program and it is not yet known whether his life is still in danger, according to the media reports, BelaPAN says.
At the same time, associates reportedly said that the former spy chief's condition had improved in the last few days.
Dagan, who had been diagnosed with liver cancer, underwent the transplant surgery at the Minsk-based National Center for Organ and Tissue Transplantation earlier this month.
The fact of the operation was first revealed by Belarusian president Aliaksandr Lukashenka live during a press conference for regional journalists from Russia.
“I don’t want to name the last example, but it will probably be a widely-known one,”
Lukashenka noted while he told about the success of Belarusian transplantology.
“The former head of the Mossad wasn’t operated anywhere — he needed a liver transplantation. Ten days have passed since the cooperation. Only Belarus agreed to perform the surgery. America refused, Germany refused, Sweden refused. But they all recommended Alieh Rumo [the chief of Belarusian centre of transplantation of organs and tissues — NN].”
Previously, Dagan’s representatives said they had never addressed Swedish medics to negotiate about the possibility of surgery.
The operation was not performed in the US as Meir Dagan did not meet the criteria for the operation. Israel turned down the operation as Dagan exceeded the permitted age for a liver transplantation by two years.
Israeli Channel 2 reported that Dagan had been set to undergo the surgery in India, but that the Indian authorities ultimately refused to treat him because of his Mossad past.
However, Belarusian transplantation legislation is much more loyal that in the US or Israel: the organs of any person could be used for transplantation after person’s death in case he or she haven’t previously forbidden to do so signing by a legal notice.
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