President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is in “in a good health condition” after she cancelled all her official activities yesterday due to a low blood pressure bout, doctors informed today.
In a communiqué released by the Presidential Doctors’ Unit, doctors said the chief of state is “in good health condition” but is to remain in Olivos carrying out her agenda from the official residence.
According to the statement, signed by doctors Luis Buonomo and Marcelo Ballesteros, the president’s medical profile has improved since yesterday after “the diagnosis of a hypotension bout.”
Yesterday, a press release released by the presidential unit doctors said that the head of state “fainted” and that it had been “suggested” that she “suspend work activities and rest all day.”
Today’s communiqué puts an end to the speculation over Fernández de Kirchner’s participation at an event sponsored by national energy company YPF to unveil an «Argentine Exploration Plan» this evening at the country’s capital.
This is not the first time that Fernández de Kirchner, 59, has suffered a blackout due to low blood pressure (hypotension). The President has suffered similar ailments in January, April and October 2011, forcing her to postpone activities including a trip to Mexico.
In 2009, Fernández de Kirchner cancelled two official visits: to Cuba in January, and to South Korea in February. In her public return after the first clinical episode during her first term in office, Fernández de Kirchner explained that she is a “chronic hypotonic.”
On January 4, the President underwent a surgery for a suspected thyroid gland carcinoma, which was diagnosed as benign after the operation.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald