Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori remains hospitalized this Friday at a clinic in Lima, and is receiving oxygen therapy, a day after he entered the health center for heart problems, his personal doctor reported.
“He is still in the (intermediate care) unit, he is still monitored. We are seeing that the (blood) pressure is still not at the level we would like, he continues with oxygen therapy and there it is. The professionals, the specialists, continue to evaluate him 24 hours out of 24 “, declared Alejandro Aguinaga to the local Channel N.
Fujimori, 83, was hospitalized in an emergency on Thursday, after suffering a heart problem at the police base where he has been serving a 25-year prison sentence since 2007 for massacres perpetrated by the Army during his government in alleged anti-terrorist operations.
On Thursday, the former Peruvian president decompensated at seven in the morning, forcing him to be taken to the nearest health center, a public hospital, to stabilize him, his doctor said. Later, the former president was transferred to a private clinic where he was admitted to intermediate care.
According to Aguinaga, who is also a congressman, Fujimori is being given medication to “control” his “heart rate so that he can return to a regular situation” since he exhibits an “arrhythmia.”
“I have been able to talk with my father, he is aware. He felt that he had never felt such a strong picture, but he is calmer now,” said Keiko Fujimori, eldest daughter of the former president and leader of the opposition Popular Force.
Aguinaga, who is active in Fuerza Popular and was Minister of Health during the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), stated that “it is not known how long the former president will remain hospitalized.”
The chief of staff of President Pedro Castillo, Anibal Torres, said this Friday that “former President Fujimori is duly cared for” like the rest of the inmates, and reiterated the possibility of transferring him to a common prison “when he heals.”
Since 2007, when he arrived in Peru extradited from Chile after five years in exile in Japan, Fujimori has recurrently suffered from respiratory and neurological problems (facial paralysis) and hypertension.
Keiko Fujimori denounced in October that the plans of the government of leftist Pedro Castillo to transfer her father from prison, as part of a policy to put an end to the privileged treatment of some prisoners in “golden prisons”, influenced the deterioration of health of his parent.
