Jordi Pujol begins rehabilitation on his fifth day of admission to the hospital

The former president of the Generalitat, Jordi Pujol, who suffered a stroke last Monday and underwent surgery at the Hospital de Sant Pau, has begun motor and language rehabilitation, according to the latest statement from the Barcelona center this Friday.

The hospital plans to discharge him in the “next few days”.

The neurological evolution of the

is "favorable", assures the medical team, who have not detected complications on his fifth day of admission to the Sant Pau Stroke Unit.

Pujol maintains the positive stabilization of the last few days, conscious, able to speak and eat.

The former head of the Government suffers an injury to the left temporal region, an area that corresponds to the distal territory of the left middle cerebral artery, where the occlusion was located that was operated on last Monday through endovascular treatment.

The medical team considers that the affectation is not definitive and at 92 years of age he can fully recover.

The director of the neurology service at the Sant Pau hospital, Alberto Lleó, supervises the recovery of the

assured on Thursday that it was "premature" to advance what his evolution would be like because, he said, "each person recovers differently."

"We cannot say what sequels will remain at the language level, because it will depend on the evolution," he considered.

Pujol's medication and sedation initially made it difficult to know exactly his cognitive and linguistic level.

The former Catalan president and leader of the extinct CiU was admitted to Sant Pau at five in the afternoon last Monday from Barcelona Hospital due to an acute obstruction in a cerebral artery, whose symptoms began with a language disorder.

Despite being 92 years old, the medical team, according to the

's family , agreed to subject him to an intervention to remove the thrombus, because he was "in good previous condition despite his age" and within eight hours from the start of symptoms, as explained by the neurologists who treat him at the Hospital de Sant Pau.

The medical team applied an endovascular treatment, which consisted of the mechanical extraction of the thrombus through the femoral artery, in an intervention that was successful.

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