The former president and current national senator Carlos Menem, who is 90 years old this July 2, was hospitalized Wednesday night at the Los Arcos Sanatorium, just two days after being discharged from a hospital stay of almost two weeks in the Argentine Institute of Diagnosis and Treatment (IADT), where he was treated for severe pneumonia.
Spokesmen explained that Menem He was transferred to the intensive care area of the clinic located in the Palermo neighborhood and, although they did not give details about the new condition, they did not rule out that it is “a reappearance of the previous problem or a sequel or side effect, to which their advanced age is added”.
The exmandatario was hospitalized from June 13 to last Monday for bacterial pneumonia. During this period, he underwent treatments with medications that gave a positive result, while the coronavirus tests that were performed were negative.
One of his doctors, Luis de la Fuente, said Monday that in Menem’s chart “diabetes got in the way” and that this complicated the situation, although he remarked that the patient “responded quickly to medications” and that is why He was discharged, but surprisingly he had to be admitted again.
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