ARGENTINA: SOCCER - DIEGO MARADONA'S DOCTOR ALFREDO CAHE SAYS HE IS OK AS FANS CONTINUE THEIR VIGIL OUTSIDE THE BUENOS AIRES HOSPITAL WHERE HE IS RECEIVING TREATMENT.

Record ID: 257804

  • Title: ARGENTINA: SOCCER - DIEGO MARADONA'S DOCTOR ALFREDO CAHE SAYS HE IS OK AS FANS CONTINUE THEIR VIGIL OUTSIDE THE BUENOS AIRES HOSPITAL WHERE HE IS RECEIVING TREATMENT.
  • Date: 28th April 2004
  • Summary: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA , (APRIL 28, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF HOMELESS PEOPLE WITH BOCA JUNIORS FLAGS AND SIGNS OF SUPPORT FOR MARADONA SLEEPING IN THE STREET OUTSIDE THE CLINIC 2. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LOOKING AT SIGNS AND MESSAGES ON THE HOSPITAL WALL 3. VARIOUS OF GET-WELL MESSAGES SIGNED BY FANS FROM SPAIN, URUGUAY, KENYA, BRAZIL, AN
  • Embargoed: 13th May 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
  • Country: Argentina
  • Reuters ID: LVA17VL72JSRB38DEF78GRW29HV9
  • Story Text: Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona is up and
    walking around his hospital room as he slowly recovers from
    heart and respiratory problems.



    Diego Maradona was striding towards recovery on
    Wednesday (April 28) as he walked around his intensive care
    hospital room, but the Argentine soccer great's doctors
    gave no hint of when he would be sent home.

    The 43-year-old has been in hospital for 11 days after
    being taken ill with heart and lung problems. His fans have
    kept a constant vigil outside, some chanting and others
    praying aloud for his recovery.

    "He has been able to walk inside his room," the
    Suizo-Argentina clinic said in a statement on Wednesday.

    "(He) continues to be stable with progressive improvement
    in the state of his heart and lungs.

    "He is without fever, the only medication still
    administered intravenously are antibiotics and the rest of
    the medication is taken orally. He continues to eat
    normally."
    Maradona's health is a vast improvement from a few days
    ago, when he was in a critical condition, heavily sedated
    and on an artificial respirator.

    The former World Cup winner's family doctor Alfredo
    Cahe raised his thumb in the air as he left the clinic on
    Wednesday, saying: "He's okay."
    Maradona's official website said he had even joked with
    his doctors on Tuesday night about letting him watch the
    Argentine national side play Morocco in a friendly
    international on Wednesday afternoon.

    Maradona, one of the most gifted players in the game's
    history, was rushed to hospital on April 18 with a swollen
    heart and breathing difficulties after watching his former
    club Boca Juniors, where he owns a VIP box.

    Doctors later said he also had pneumonia.

    Maradona, who has been undergoing a drugs
    rehabilitation programme in Cuba since 2000, returned to
    Argentina in March. He has put on so much weight he is
    barely recognisable from his playing days.


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