Analysis of the cervical injury that affected Michel Barnier at the end of October “I didn’t find any suspicious cells.”his doctor announced in a statement published by Matignon on Tuesday afternoon, November 19. “The Prime Minister continues his activities normally, as he does in other places” since his operation, which took place on the weekend of October 26 and 27, Olivier Hersan added.
Michel Barnier had undergone surgery “from a cervical injury”. It was the first time in forty years that a head of government had undergone surgery: in 1984, Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy (Socialist Party) was admitted to the Parisian Val-de-Grâce hospital to treat acute pneumonia.
Michel Barnier’s surgical intervention was “it went very well” according to his doctor, the Prime Minister was able to resume work normally in Matignon on Monday and his public activities a few days later. A scar is still visible on his neck.
According to the president of the National Academy of Surgery, Olivier Jaffré, this injury resembles “in an approach to a lymph node, hence the delay in the pathological examination” (search for a possible tumor), he detailed, rejecting the hypothesis of a lesion of the “cervical spine”. Therefore, the analysis was intended, according to him, to verify a risk “inflammatory, infectious or cancerous”.
After the operation, Matignon services did not want to provide further details or details about the modalities and location of the intervention.
