The state of health of double Olympic champion Alberto Juantorena has continued to improve in recent hours, so the most recent medical report changes his report from serious patient to care, according to official media on the island.
Juantorena, 71 years old and currently president of the Cuban Athletics Federation, continues to be hospitalized in the IInstitute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí (IPK)from Havana, now without ventilatory support, according to information provided by Dr. Luis Enrique Martínez Rivero, a specialist in intensive medicine and adult emergency medicine at that institution, and reviewed through the sports portal Hit.
Alberto Juantorena is now reported for care.
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The report adds that the patient is breathing spontaneously with supplemental oxygen and has not presented complications from the respiratory point of view, the medium specifies.
In addition, it transpired that his cardiovascular system is also stable and from a neurological point of view he is awake, cooperative and already feeds himself, the publication highlights.
refers Hit that medical specialists keep Juantorena under strict observation and plan the start of rehabilitation therapy.
Last Friday, August 12, it was reported that Juantorena, champion of the 400 and 800 meters at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, was hospitalized at the IPK, presenting bronchopneumonia and cardiovascular decompensation “with a history of a picture of COVID-19 acquired abroad, which is why 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 that due to the persistence of bacterial pneumonia “he was receiving mechanical ventilation and support with vasoactive drugs, improving the parameters in both cases.”
