The Military Hospital of Bogotá reported this Thursday afternoon in which state the former mayor of Bogotá was admitted in an emergency after suffering an apparent fainting.
The former mayor, convicted of corruption during his administration in the capital, He was rushed to the Military Hospital due to an apparent fainting.
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Although it was known that his condition was delicate, there were no further details in this regard, so the statement from the medical care center clarified doubts and gave a much more serious report than previously believed.
Health of Samuel Moreno Rojas today: Military Hospital reports diagnosis
The Military Hospital indicated that Moreno Rojas He was taken urgently by carabineros of the National Police “without vital signs”Therefore, the relevant procedures for his condition were initiated.
“Advanced cardio/cerebropulmonary resuscitation and PE support is started by the multidisciplinary team,” he explained.
The patient reacted favorably to the procedure, for which an echocardiography was performed, the result of which “suggests acute myocardial infarction”.
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Moreno “was transferred to the hemodynamics room for cardiac catheterization, where severe coronary disease was confirmed”added the military hospital.
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the medical corps he proceeded to perform a “primary angioplasty”, with which he recovered “coronary flow and hemodynamic stability”before “transfer to coronary intensive care unit for management and support.”
“Reserved prognosis is established,” he concludes.
This was the hospital statement:
Samuel Moreno: age, why he was convicted and how long his prison sentence was
Samuel Moreno Rojas is the son of María Eugenia Rojas and grandson of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, the only dictator in the history of Colombia. He is currently 62 years old and in addition to being mayor of Bogotá he was also a senator of the Republic.
During his mayoralty, the scandal known as the ‘Recruitment Carousel’ took place, in which Moreno was implicated. Subsequently He was found guilty of the crimes of own bribery, undue interest in the execution of contracts and embezzlement by appropriation in the contracts for the road network and phase III of TransMilenio in Bogotá, but acquitted for the crime of embezzlement.
For these crimes, he initially received a sentence of 24 years in prison, which was later reduced to 11 and a few months.
Samuel’s brother Iván Moreno, is also being prosecuted for the same recruitment scandal and is accused of crimes against the public administrationsuch as undue interest in entering into contracts, for which he is in pretrial detention.