Two-time Cuban Olympic champion Alberto Juantorena, hospitalized for a few days in a hospital in Havana due to a critical state of Healthexperienced a slight improvement in the last few hours, according to official reports.
In statements offered by telephone to the noon broadcast of the Cuban television news, the doctor of the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK)Odalis Marrero, reported that the current president of the Cuban Federation of Athletics It had happened this Tuesday to be reported as serious stable, instead of critical, as it was maintained yesterday.
The specialist added to the media that Juantorena was ventilating spontaneously, but with oxygen support and that from the neurological point of view “a progressive improvement in his level of wakefulness” was observed, which had allowed him to switch to that type of breathing.
“Work is being done to control their tension figures,” said Dr. Marrero during the brief telephone contact with the television space, in addition to noting that the treatment is continuing to also control the bacterial infection that affects the monarch of the 400 and 800 meters on the Olympic Games Montreal 1976.
However, this report contrasts with another also published this Tuesday on the website Hitpublication of National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder)which cites information from the IPK that maintains Juantorena’s health status in the “stable critical” condition.
This report ensures that the outstanding former athlete is without sedation and without fever, continues to be fed by Levin and is “invasively ventilated in a spontaneous mode with minimum parameters and adequate oxygenation.”
In addition, he points out that he presented “high blood pressure figures”, for which he began to be treated, and that he was also transfused with fresh plasma without complications due to a “hematuria event”.
IPK updates on Alberto’s health status #Juantorena Continues to report critical stable. #Cuba #Athletics #Athletics https://t.co/S8ZaiuvLzs pic.twitter.com/8LQSH9iY5h
— JIT Cuban Sport (@jit_digital) August 16, 2022
Last Friday, August 12, it had been reported that Juantorena was hospitalized at the IPK, presenting bronchopneumonia and cardiovascular decompensation “with a history of symptoms of COVID-19 acquired abroad, as a result of which complications have appeared”, as reported then Hit.
A day later, and through the same medium, transcended that the analyzes carried out on the former runner confirmed that he suffered from a dengue serotype 3, and due to the persistence of bacterial pneumonia “he was on mechanical ventilation and supported with vasoactive drugs, improving parameters in both cases.”
Veitía with normal parameters
He is also hospitalized Ronaldo Veitiafor many years leading the successful Cuban women’s judo team, who suffered serious cardiovascular complications while visiting Spain He was taken to an intensive care room in a coma.
A report of Hit dated this Tuesday indicates that the laureate former coach continues to be admitted to a Spanish medical institution, where he is now in a room with normal medical parameters, but sedated, according to the most recent information received by Inder.
In these conditions, the damage caused by his illnesses and the coma condition in which he arrived at the health center is still being evaluated, a state of which I had already managed to get out.
“It is also not possible to determine at what time you will be discharged,” adds the report of Hit.
Ronaldo Veitía continues to be admitted to Spain
He is in the room with normal medical parameters, but sedated. #Cuba #Judo https://t.co/6XCh8t8gjU pic.twitter.com/yDx5fuD8Jw— JIT Cuban Sport (@jit_digital) August 16, 2022
The delicate health situations of Veitía and Juantorena have motivated numerous expressions of concern and also support from colleagues, disciples, federations and admirers of both Cuban sports glories, both inside and outside Cuba.
