ARGENTINA: Popular president, Cristina Fernandez, is recovering well after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer

Record ID: 446791

  • Title: ARGENTINA: Popular president, Cristina Fernandez, is recovering well after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer
  • Date: 7th January 2012
  • Summary: PILAR, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA (JANUARY O6, 2012) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF SECURITY AT HOSPITAL FERNANDEZ-SUPPORTER COMING OUT OF TENT VARIOUS OF FERNANDEZ-SUPPORTER SLEEPING UNDER TABLE VARIOUS OF DOG SLEEPING UNDER POLITICAL BANNER VARIOUS OF FLOWERS PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESPERSON ALFREDO SCOCCIMARRO ARRIVING TO READ MEDICAL REPORT (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESPERSON ALFREDO SCOCCIMARRO SAYING: "The president continues evolving in a satisfactory way, with clinic and lab results normal. She has rested through the night. She's eating in an adequate way and their taken her IV out and are no long draining the wound. On the other hand, medical personnel at the hospital have informed us she will be let out in the next 24 hours." VARIOUS OF FERNANDEZ-SUPPORTERS CELEBRATING NEWS SIGN READING: THE HOMELAND SAYS THANKS TO THE DOCTORS VARIOUS OF SIGN SUPPORTING FERNANDEZ, SHOWING NESTOR KIRCHNER
  • Embargoed: 22nd January 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Argentina, Argentina
  • Country: Argentina
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVADD6V21LR5CKPU2LAYC7ZVLEUI
  • Story Text: Argentina's popular president, Cristina Fernandez, is recovering well after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer on Wednesday and will be released from the hospital in the next 24 hours, a spokesperson said Friday (January 06).
    Fernandez's papillary carcinoma was detected during a routine medical check-up just before Christmas and there was no sign the disease had spread.
    A few hundred supporters cheered upon hearing the news, some of them holding signs reading "Strength Cristina." They were gathered outside the Austral Hospital in the city of Pilar, some 28 miles (45 km) north of the capital Buenos Aires.
    Some have spent days camping outside the hospital, waiting to get updates from presidential spokesperson Alfredo Scoccimarro.
    On Friday, Scoccimarro had more good news.
    "The president continues evolving in a satisfactory way, with clinic and lab results normal. She has rested through the night. She's eating in an adequate way and their taken her IV out and are no long draining the wound. On the other hand, medical personnel at the hospital have informed us she will be let out in the next 24 hours," he said.
    The cancer diagnosis came just months after the centre-left leader easily won a second four-year term in office. Doctors said the 58-year-old president has a better than 90 percent chance of recovery.
    Fernandez's already high approval ratings could get an extra lift from public sympathy over her illness as they did following the death late in 2010 of her husband and predecessor as president, Nestor Kirchner.
    The news of her ailment shook a country where Eva Peron, the wife of legendary leader Juan Peron, has been revered for decades after dying of cancer at the age of 33. Like "Evita," Fernandez is loved by some for her efforts to help the poor.
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