Kidney stone surgery for Mandelson after 3am dash to hospital

[emad]

Peter Mandelson was set to have an operation for kidney stones today after being rushed to hospital at 3am by health minister and surgeon Lord Darzi.

The new Business Secretary was admitted to St Mary's Hospital in Paddington in severe pain.

He was later able to leave hospital and attend a meeting of the new National Economic Council at Downing Street. He was set to return later today to have surgery.

Mr Mandelson, 54, began complaining of abdominal pain over the weekend. Yesterday, as he was having dinner with a friend at his £3.5 million Regent's Park home, the pain worsened and he rang for medical help.

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[dipsydoodle]

1. I hope they put some in

to make the pain worse.

[emad]

2. Made me laugh!

Agree entirely with the sentiment.

[Mr Creosote]

3. There is no point to this post at all

except that I want one of the Mandelson threads to be nestling next to the Chocolate Willy spread thread. For some reason that amuses me.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. There's a real connection: Mandelson drunk Chinese yoghurt to show he wasn't afraid of melamine

and then, 10 days later, he had to have a kidney stone removed - which is one of the main effects of melamine. Too quick for it to have come from his drink, but the irony is there:

CONTROVERSIAL British politician Peter Mandelson, who was feted in China for drinking a glass of yoghurt on television in Beijing last week, has been rushed to hospital suffering from a kidney stone.

Thousands of babies across China have suffered kidney stones after drinking formula milk mixed with the industrial plastic melamine.

But there is almost certainly no connection between the two events in the case of Mr Mandelson, whose illness blighted his first day as Business Secretary in Gordon Brown's cabinet.

But the irony is not lost in China, where the consumption of milk powder contaminated by melamine has caused four babies to die and more than 50,000 to be treated in hospital, chiefly for kidney stones.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24462153-25837,00.html