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China Daily | Updated: 2009-07-23 07:50
President turns surgeon for a day
Turkmenistan's president opened a cancer hospital and performed the first operation himself.
State media said President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov removed a benign tumor from behind the ear of the patient at the hospital's opening on Tuesday. He was assisted by German and local doctors. Berdymukhamedov is a dentist by training.
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