The causes are unknown, but his doctor will provide information in the next few hours. The former president finished treatment for esophageal cancer in June.
The former president Jose Mujica He was admitted again to the Medical Union of Uruguay Assistance Center (Casmu) For the third time in a period of ten days, he was given a hydration line and is undergoing tests, although the reasons for his admission are still unknown.
For the third time in ten days, Mujica He had to be hospitalized after finishing his treatment for the disease in June. esophageal cancer which left him “destroyed,” according to the former president. As reported by Telenoche, the Frente Amplio leader was admitted to the mutualist this Thursday, although the reasons for his hospitalization are unknown at this time. On the two previous occasions, it was due to problems with hydration and nutrition.
The first hospitalization took place last Monday morning, and lasted for almost 24 hours. The problem was the need to give him serum through a tube in the face of a picture of dehydration, something that was made difficult due to the vasculitis that he has suffered for years. After being discharged, that same night he participated in the presentation of the former presenter Blanca Rodriguez as a member of list 609 Senate, by the Popular Participation Movement (MPP).
On Saturday, meanwhile, he was admitted once again, this time after choking on food while eating; but he was quickly discharged. The explanation for the problem was in the fibrosis that remained after the radiotherapy treatment, as indicated by the doctor Mujica, Raquel Pannone.
Regarding his last admission, the causes are still unknown, but they had to insert a line to hydrate him while he undergoes tests. His doctor will provide information in the next few hours.
“We have strong convictions that cancer has been cured”
Last Tuesday, after the discharge of Mujica, Doctor Raquel Pannone said she has “convictions that the cancer was cured,” after evaluating the follow-up studies of the reference of the MPP.
“We did CT scans several times and it shows that there is no evidence of the tumor”, Pannone revealed about the progress of the oncological treatment that the former president received. “He is fragile, he is almost 90 years old, he has underlying pathologies and this makes him weaker, but if we manage to get him to drink water, he will recover,” said the doctor, who specified that he has a fibrosis due to radiotherapy which caused “kidney function to worsen.”
The health professional highlighted that the treatment “was very good” and, regarding the condition in the esophagus, He said: “We have strong convictions that the cancer He was cured. He has no more. He had several CT scans in different places and they show that there is no evidence of the tumor.”
Source: Ambito
