The former president of Paraguay Fernando Lugo (2008-2012) evolves “slowly”, according to his doctor, and has already passed to the rehabilitation area of the clinic where he is hospitalized in Argentina, after suffering a stroke on August 10 past.
“Everything is evolving slowly, but well,” said Sergio Perrone, the medical adviser put by the family and doctors in Paraguay, who is an adviser to the Cardiac Transplant Division of the Fleni Foundation.
The 71-year-old left-wing politician was transferred on September 7 to the acute care center of the Fleni clinic, in the Belgrano neighborhood of the capital, to undergo various studies and ensure that he is in the best possible conditions. to begin the rehabilitation process.
According to Perrone, last week he was transferred to the Fleni Adult Rehabilitation Center in the town of Escobar, in the province of Buenos Aires.
Before transferring him to rehabilitation, he remained at the headquarters of the Argentine capital to stabilize him, rule out the possibility of another stroke and try to remove him from the respirator.
Lugo was hospitalized last August 10, after he suffered a seizure at the Congress headquarters, from where he was transferred to an emergency room and from there to the Migone Sanatorium in the Paraguayan capital.
Doctors reported that the senator had suffered a stroke associated with bleeding from an arteriovenous malformation, for which he required surgery and other procedures.
With his electoral victory in 2008, Lugo, who was a Catholic bishop, put an end to 61 years of hegemony by the Colorado Party.
He was unable to complete his government term, due to a controversial parliamentary trial that evicted him from power in June 2012.
Lugo came to the Senate in 2013 at the hands of the Guasu Front, an organization of which he is president and which maintains that the former president remains the leader of the candidates for the Senate next December. EFE
