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Former Uruguayan President José Mujica received the medical discharge this Wednesday after being subjected this Tuesday in a hospital in Montevideo to an endoscopy, in which an ulcer has been detected in the esophagus. “It was decided to fire him after proving that he tolerated oral feeding well,” said his personal physician, Raquel Pannone.

“He went home to continue in relative rest. And we will continue to control it, as we always do “Pannone added. The former president was rushed to hospital on Tuesday night with discomfort in his esophagus, which doctors initially thought was fishbone. However, After the procedure, no foreign element was found, although they detected a lesion of the esophagus caused by the passage of a.

“Sometimes foreign bodies generate an injury where it was supported then migrate to the digestive system. Now we have to wait for this ulcer, this wound to heal, which takes ten, fifteen daysExplained otolaryngologist Andrés Munyo, who was in charge of the procedure.

Imaging tests to rule out complications in the neck and chest have given good results for former President Mujica. “He had an excellent outcome with CT scans of his neck and chest which worked very well”Munyo said, who also pointed out that the procedure was done on time and on time.

“I was in a very good mood”Munyo spoke about former president José “Pepe” Mujica. In the coming days, the former senator will have to follow a specific diet. In addition, you will need to maintain “relative rest” that does not require complete stillness or bedtime. In this sense, Raquel Pannone spoke of Mujica’s activities on his farm. “You know him well, despite his age he has a very intense activity and many times he does hard work that for a few days we will try not to do”said Pannone, the former president’s personal physician.

Regarding the procedure applied to her husband, Lucía Topolansky assured that Mujica was fine. “I spoke to him for a little while before he was numbed and he was actually complaining because he was starving.”Mujica’s wife joked, in dialogue with Radio10, early Wednesday.

“It’s okay Pepe, it was a domestic accident. Eating fish had the bad luck that a thorn got stuck there “Topolansky said. As he explained this morning, the thorn could not be removed on an outpatient basis due to where it had been deposited, “a place to joke,” Topolansky described. for which the former president had to be hospitalized and anesthetized.

Doctors took a biopsy of the area to rule out any other pathology, although they insisted that there is “a high chance (probability) that it is traumatic”, because “it can happen that a foreign body hits the mucous membrane and causes an inflammatory state, opens and there the ulcer “.

The former president, who will be 86 on May 20, stepped down from his Senate seat in 2020 after increased cases of the covid-19 pandemic and taking into account the risk that this represents for his health, since, in addition to his advanced age, he suffers from an autoimmune disease.