The President was transferred to the Otamendi sanatorium for “a picture of acute lumbar pain.”
Alberto Fernández was transferred this Tuesday to the Otamendi sanatorium due to severe pain in the lower back and in advance of Clarín, the Presidential Medical Unit issued a statement about his health.
“The President of the Nation, Doctor D. Alberto Ángel FERNÁNDEZ presents a picture of acute low back pain, which is why the corresponding studies will be carried out in order to be able to administer a specific treatment,” the person in charge explained in a medical report. from the area of presidential health, Federico Saavedra.
The official concluded his brief text with the promise that “public opinion will be kept informed.” However, the statement posted in the area of the Secretariat of Public Communication, dependent on the spokesperson for the Presidency, Gabriela Cerruti, did not mention the Otamendi sanatorium as the destination where Fernández is treated for this condition in his health.
The President’s medical history
Fernández must pay special attention to all the symptoms manifested in the abdominal and pectoral area, after in June 2019 -shortly before being elected, first as a candidate and then as president- he suffered a Subsegmental pulmonary thromboembolism with left pulmonary infarction.
that condition very delicate -that the then candidate tried to deny emphatically, but that he was admitted to the Otamendi for five days– was discovered and treated after a series of studies carried out after the President arrived at the emergency room with a severe leg pain and shortness of breath. He was immediately anticoagulated and stabilized.
In addition, in April 2021, on his 62nd birthday, he was diagnosed with coronavirus. “I had 3 lines of fever, a bit of a headache and today I slept like a lion. I have an internal clock for which I always wake up at 7 in the morning but today, when I woke up, I decided to continue sleeping,” he said at the time about his symptoms. The medical team had reported that it was a clinical picture “mild, confirming the immunization granted by the previously received vaccines”.
In November of last year, the president remained hospitalized for a few hours after he fainted during a presidential summit in baliIndonesia.
Fernández felt dizzy at the G20 summit and what was first framed as a picture of hypotension was, ultimately, a erosive gastritisas reported later.
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