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RABAT/CONAKRY (Reuters) - The health of Guinea's junta leader is not a cause for concern, the chief doctor at Morocco's main military hospital said on Sunday after Moussa Dadis Camara was treated for head wounds from a gun attack.

A government source in the Moroccan capital Rabat said it could still be several days before Camara was well enough to return to his West African nation, where he survived an assassination bid by renegade soldiers on Thursday.

"The current health condition of the Guinean president does not inspire concern," said the Moroccan doctor, Ali Abrouq.

"The result of the operation is favourable," he said in a statement, adding that Camara underwent surgery on Friday to treat trauma of the cranium.

Defence Minister Sekouba Konate, viewed as loyal to Camara, has assumed temporary control of the world's top exporter of the aluminium ore bauxite, seen as a security linchpin in a region that has experienced three major civil wars in the last decade.

A Reuters eyewitness said the capital Conakry was quiet and many residents remained at home, fearing outbreaks of violence between factions of the unruly army in Camara's absence.

A Moroccan government source told Reuters earlier that Camara was conscious after the operation he underwent in a hospital outside Rabat.

"It may take more than three days for the president to leave the hospital," the source said.