FEDERAL Labor MP Craig Thomson is in hospital.
A spokesman for Mr Thomson told thetelegraph.com.au the NSW MP, who is being investigated by the nation’s industrial umpire Fair Work Australia, woke up with abdominal pains and so is in Canberra Hospital for a check up.
“He got I think some stomach pains, some abdominal pains, yesterday,” the spokesman said.
“I think it’s really been since the beginning of the week.”
Mr Thomson’s spokesman said the MP was “just being checked up at the moment”.
“At this stage he’s there still being assessed.”
Later, Labor’s chief government whip Joel Fitzgibbon tweeted Mr Thomson may have appendicitis.
“Looks like Craig Thomson has appendicitis,” he wrote on the social networking site.
“(It) may have to come out but he’s fine.”
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Mr Thomson will likely be back at work in “a day or two”.
She thanked the opposition for honouring the long-standing convention of providing a parliamentary pair if an MP needs medical attention.
Thompson, Member for Dobell, on the Central Coast, was at work in Canberra yesterday but today has secured a pair for any votes taken on the floor of the House of Representatives.
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