May 7, 2023, 4:00 AM
May 7, 2023, 4:00 AM
Former Minister Eidy Roca must receive specialized medical attention in the Argentine city of Córdoba starting this Monday, May 8, according to their relatives. On Friday he obtained the removal order after a guarantee. The legal process lasted for a year before the courts.
To comply with the medical appointment, Eidy Roca is expected to arrive in Córdoba today along with one of her grandchildren who is a doctor. In the Argentine city, he will undergo a comprehensive evaluation of his health, which will allow him to know the most effective treatment possibilities to be able to stop the advance of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) that he suffers from and which is in a very advanced phase.
“I am also going to Argentina to seek contacts with the ELA Association of Argentina and I will have an interview with Senator Esteban Bulrich, who suffers from this disease and whose condition forced him to leave his seat in the Senate. He has already lost the ability to speak and swallow, and communicates through a device that translates what he wants to say.r”, the former minister pointed out before embarking on the trip to the neighboring country.
“My health deteriorated a lot, to the point of not being able to eat due to difficulty swallowing, which caused weight loss important until entering malnutrition. We had to resort to a gastrostomy to place a gastric button that is permanent”Eidy Roca told EL DEBER. The ex-minister obtained the two guarantors that Justice requested for her uprooting, a measure that was issued on Friday.
Judge Presbítero Rodríguez finally decided to grant the uprooting. The measure is in force for 30 days.. The former authority is under house arrest for alleged irregularities in the purchase of a batch of Chinese respirators.
Laidy Roca, sister of the ex-minister, said that “the media pressure was important” so that his trip was authorized by the judicial authorities.
