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Condition of Interenergoservis worker wounded in Iraq improves

24.06.2004, 15.32

According to Loginov, there have been improvements in Anatoly Korenkov's condition, but doctors still regard it as serious. His wife has come from Stavropol to tend to him in an IT ward.

A Sklifasovsky hospital doctor told Tass that after evacuation to Moscow, Korenkov underwent yet another, fourth surgery, in connection with the gunshot wound to the backbone.

Korenkov's doctors said it was premature to make prognoses on how long his convalescence will be.

On May 26, a bus carrying a group of Interenergoservis workers came under fire near Baghdad. Two people have been killed and another seven were wounded in the attack.

After the incident, the company administration decided on full evacuation of its personnel.

On May 27, May 28 and June 4, Emergency Ministry's places airlifted from Iraq 220 citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

There are no Interenergoservis workers in Iraq at the present time.

U.S. doctors who initially operated on Korenkov, twice refused to allow his evacuation because of the patient's condition.

He was flown to Moscow after his condition stabilized and slightly improved.