2024-01-03 23:05:23
The health status of former mayor of Cúcuta Ramiro Suárez It is serious and he cannot continue being deprived of his freedom. This was warned by an opinion of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciencesheld in mid-December.
The forensic report describes the health problems suffered by the former mayor, sentenced to 27 years for being a co-author of homicide, who lost the benefit of a house due to prison on July 19, due to the irregularities that surrounded his transfer to the capital of Norte de Santander, in August 2022, to continue paying his sentence.
According to the Legal Medicine report, Suárez Corzo suffers from several diseases:
- Inclusion body myosistis
- Severe dependence to carry out basic activities of daily living (Barthel in 35 points)
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Controlled systemic arterial hypertension
- Controlled type I diabetes mellitus
- Mixed dyslipidemia
- Sleep onset and maintenance disorder
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These ailments make it difficult for the 63-year-old former mayor to get around and carry out basic activities (he cannot undress, bathe, go to the bathroom, get dressed, move around or walk).
According to the examination carried out in a cell in the south wing, he requires permanent assistance from a qualified person. The document adds that “he presents a severe decrease in muscle strength and sensitivity in the lower limbs and left upper limb, areflexia, muscle atrophy, hypotonia in the lower limbs, pain referred to the passive arcs of mobility of the lower limbs, there is no grasping or grip in left hand, with severe dependence to carry out basic activities of daily living according to the Barthel scale of 35 points.
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What Legal Medicine recommends
After the examLegal Medicine concluded that “at the time of the present assessment of Mr. Ramiro Suarez Corzo in his current conditions allow us to substantiate a serious state of health due to illness and incompatible with life in formal confinement” and that is why he requested continually guarantee the medications ordered by the treating doctors, as well as the diet conditions prescribed by nutrition and dietetics. “Requires evaluation, management and specialized medical monitoring by internal medicine, neurology, physiatry, fully complying with what is ordered by these specialties: laboratories, paraclinics, imaging studies, medication formulation, diets, therapies, interconsultations, etc., as well as controls. doctors with the periodicity they determine. Likewise, comprehensive management by your assigned first-level health service and access to the Emergency Service in case of decompensation of your illness or your clinical condition warrants it.”
The Ombudsman requested house arrest
Before knowing the opinion of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic SciencesIn December 2023, the Ombudsman’s Office asked to return Suárez’s house arrest, ensuring that his conditions are not the best and that the deterioration in his state of health is considerable.
The entity’s request was raised after a verification visit requested by the defense of the convicted former president.
According to the report of the visit made in November, Suárez Corzo had not received medical attention from the EPS until that moment and he did not have a caregiver nor was he receiving nursing care.
It should be remembered that in 2023, the convicted former mayor was transferred to Cúcuta to finish paying his sentence, but in July of that year a judge revoked the house-to-jail measure, arguing that Suárez had repeatedly failed to comply with his obligations as a beneficiary. of the House for jail, without any justification being found.
Once the measure was revoked, Suárez Corzo remained confined in the Erasmo Meoz hospital in Cúcuta for more than two months. His stay in said medical center was the subject of controversy after several complaints that revealed how the inmate took advantage of the hospital to promote political meetings with the purpose of favoring some candidates from the last electoral contest. Due to these events, Suárez Corso was transferred again to Bogotá by order of Inpec in September 2023.
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