Photo | Archive | THE HOMELAND Mario Castaño, ex-senator from Caldas.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Justice denied house arrest due to illness to former Caldas congressman Mario Castaño Pérez.
The Court argued that there is no official medical opinion that demonstrates these conditions. The Liberal Party politician remains confined in La Picota and suffers, according to him and his defense: “Morbid obesity, severe stage (3) arterial hypertension, type II diabetes mellitus, severe dyslipidemia, pulmonary thromboembolism associated with embolism of venous origin” .
In the plea of the ex-congressman and his defense, it was argued that he had not been provided with a place of confinement that would guarantee the minimum vital conditions to safeguard his minimum vital rights in the event of a fateful event.
What the Court did suggest is that a procedure be carried out before the Inpec for Legal Medicine to assess it and thus have an official concept.
“Inpec and the Penitentiary and Prison Services Unit (Uspec) will be urged, through the entity that Mr. Mario Alberto Castaño Pérez has contracted or to which he is affiliated, to guarantee the medical care and care that are required in accordance with to the prescriptions of the treating physicians”, pointed out the Supreme Court of Justice.
The former senator collapsed on February 15 in La Picota prison, in the south of Bogotá, where he is being held, and told the guards who came to help him that he had severe chest pain. They transferred him to the Colombia University Clinic where they performed a catheterization.