Secretary of State, John Kerry, is "resting and in good condition" after the surgery without "complications" that was submitted today in Boston after femur fracture he sustained in an accident while riding cycling in Switzerland on Sunday, the government said today.
"The Secretary Kerry is resting and in good condition after doctors it repaired femur fracture in Massachusetts General Hospital Boston," said John Kirby, spokesman for the State Department, in a brief statement.
For his part, Dr. Dennis Burke, responsible for the operation, said it was conducted "under regional anesthesia" and "the secretary was conscious during the four hours' duration.
"The intervention had no complications, the fracture was completely repaired, and we hope to begin to walk on Wednesday," Burke said in a note.
Finally, he said he anticipates "a short hospitalization" and "a full and complete recovery."
Before entering the operating room, Kerry spoke by telephone on Today the Ministerial Group on Anti Islamic State Coalition in Paris, where he planned to attend.
Secretary of State landed at Boston's Logan airport at 20.50 local time (00.50 GMT Tuesday) and went straight to the hospital, with Dr. Burke, who moved to Switzerland to accompany him on his return trip.
Kerry profited in Geneva a few hours off, when I had the mishap, having kept on Saturday six hours of meetings with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in an attempt to resolve the obstacles that still exist to achieve a deal on nuclear program of the Islamic Republic.
71, the head of US diplomacy is a keen cyclist and often travel with your own bike on the official plane to use in the dead hours between meetings, which took place last month in Lausanne (Switzerland) for nuclear talks .
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