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Diana could have survived
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MORE than three years after her death in a Paris car accident, Princess Diana continues to stir controversy. This time, one of the world's leading heart surgeons says doctors could have saved her life had she been rushed to hospital quicker.
Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world's first heart transplant operation, says in an upcoming book that he can no longer keep quiet about his views of events surrounding the crash, according to Britain's Sunday Telegraph.
"Her death stunned me all the more as I was able to get a look at the particulars of the autopsy findings very soon after her death," he writes in the book, to be published in May.
"I think she could have been saved, because according to the report which I have seen, she died of internal bleeding.
"What I want to say here is that, if Princess Diana had been brought to hospital within 10 minutes of the accident -- something which should easily have been possible -- and, once there, had been cared for properly, she could have survived."
"My opinion is that they made a mistake in not rushing her to hospital quicker because her bleeding could only be stopped by surgery."
Diana, her companion Dodi Fayed and their driver Henri Paul all died as a result of the crash in the early hours of August 31, 1997.
An official French inquiry into the accident concluded that the driver, who was on medication and had been drinking, lost control of the Mercedes car.( SD-Agencies)
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