N'DJAMENA, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Chad's Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji was flown for urgent medical treatment in France after suffering a heart attack early on Wednesday, a source at his office said.

"The prime minister was victim of a cardio-vascular accident very early this morning," said the source, who asked not to be identified. "A medical plane took him urgently for the necessary medical treatment in France."

Yoadimnadji, a former agriculture minister, was named prime minister in February 2005 by President Idriss Deby, who seized power in a military coup in 1990.

He has been instrumental in implementing reforms in Chad's oil sector and oversees the daily running of government. He was reappointed last year after Deby won a fresh five-year term at elections boycotted by the opposition in the impoverished, landlocked central African state.

Despite becoming one of Africa's most recent oil producers, Chad remains near the bottom of the continent's development indices and health facilities are basic.

Deby's government faces a low-intensity war against rebels in eastern Chad as well as ethnic conflict spilling across the border from the neighbouring Sudanese region of Darfur. The fighting has displaced tens of thousands of Chadians.

Infrastructure Minister Adoum Younousmi will take over as the interim head of the cabinet during Yoadimnadji's absence, another government source said.

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