Under absolute secrecy, after 7:00 p.m., presidential custody arrived at the Otamendi Sanatorium in the Recoleta neighborhood, to prepare for the arrival of Alberto Fernández.
The president is suffering from severe back pain and will enter the health center to undergo medical studies.
Without further precision or signs that allow inferring any severity in the symptoms, 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- suffered a
subsegmental pulmonary thromboembolism with left pulmonary infarction
.
This very delicate condition -which the candidate tried to deny emphatically at the time, but which kept him hospitalized at Otamendi for five days- was discovered and treated after a series of studies carried out after Alberto arrived at the emergency room with severe pain
. in the leg and respiratory distress
.
Immediately afterwards he was anticoagulated and stabilized.
Fernández was angry with the dissemination of his actual health picture, and sought to minimize it: "On Monday I had a rather hectic day, I met with Matías Lammens, with Felipe Solá, with the governor of La Rioja; that day I had a lot of cough,
a dry cough, and my back hurt a lot
. So I called my doctor, one of the doctors who are part of the Otamendi staff, and he told me to go," he explained.
"There they detected that I had
a strong inflammation in the pleura
. I had already
had a history of a small clot in the lung in 2008.
Then they gave me intravenous medication to relieve the pain and, since I was hospitalized, my doctor He told me to stay and do a general check-up," he explained at that time.
In addition to that 2008 history, the now president mentioned that his mother and sister suffered thromboembolism in the legs.