Robinson discharged from Medical Clinic

FORMER President Arthur NR Robinson was yesterday discharged from the Southern Medical Clinic where he was warded over the weekend for bleeding along the urinary tract.

Robinson left the nursing home around 2 pm —  after undergoing a minor surgical procedure on Sunday night to stop the bleeding. The former President fell ill in Tobago on Sunday while attending a function in his honour staged by Trans-Global Communi-cations. He was flown by helicopter to San Fernando where Dr Lal Sawh attended to him at the clinic around midnight. Yesterday, Dr Sawh gave the former president the all clear to return to his Ellerslie Park home. Robinson, who throughout his stay at the clinic was guarded by two Special Branch police officers, was visited by his daughter Margaret yesterday. She later accompanied him to his home. Dr Sawh said that Robinson’s intermittent bleeding was the result of radiation treatment, and that Robinson is likely to experience bleeding along the urinary tract from time to time.