Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was admitted to a hospital in Buenos Aires and underwent surgery for appendicitis. The former Argentine president (2007-2015) suffered acute abdominal pain this Saturday afternoon and, at the request of her medical team, was authorized by the justice system to leave the department where, since last June, she has been under house arrest, convicted in a corruption case. The official medical report reported, at night, that the patient was progressing “without postoperative complications.”
Kirchner was admitted to the Otamendi Sanatorium in the Argentine capital. The examinations performed at the clinic confirmed “the diagnosis of appendicitis with localized peritonitis” and laparoscopic surgery was performed, according to the statement signed by the medical director of the sanatorium, María Lanfranconi.
Minutes after learning of the ex-president’s hospitalization, groups of Kirchnerist leaders and militants gathered around the sanatorium with signs supporting the Peronist leader. “You will never walk alone,” promised an extensive flag mounted in front of the clinic. “Fuerza Cristina,” said one of the many posters plastered on the walls of the building.
“Dr. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was transferred, after due judicial authorization, to the Otamendi Sanatorium,” Gregorio Dalbón, one of the former president’s lawyers, had reported hours before. “When he presented an abdominal ailment, doctors went to his home and, after a rigorous evaluation, determined that a more exhaustive evaluation was necessary in said sanatorium.”
In the same Otamendi Sanatorium, Kirchner had already undergone a hysterectomy in 2021. When she still had her office in the Casa Rosada, in 2013, she had undergone surgery for a subdural hematoma in the skull and, a year before, a tumor had been removed from her thyroid gland.
Kirchner, 72, has been detained at his home in the Constitución neighborhood since, in the middle of the year, the Supreme Court of Justice confirmed his conviction in the case known as Roadsdue to irregularities in road works in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz. The former president’s sentence provides for six years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office. In the last week, the Court left firm the decision that he use an electronic anklet, a device to monitor his location. While she remains arrested, Kirchner is being tried in another case, named Corruption notebooksaccused of leading an illicit association that collected bribes from businessmen hired to carry out public works.
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