Retired General Humberto Ortega, former head of the Army Nicaraguais in a delicate state of health after presenting a “sudden deterioration” in his health condition, the Military Medical Corps that treats him reported this Sunday.
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The management of the Military Hospital School “Dr. Alejandro Dávila Bolaños” stated in a statement that The former military chief suffered this Sunday a “sudden deterioration of his condition with cardiogenic shock and altered state of consciousness “which required intensive therapy treatment to maintain blood pressure levels.”
“Currently the multidisciplinary team, made up of specialists and subspecialists, maintains surveillance and treatment of the severity presented“, details the statement.
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In the informative note, the Military Hospital recalls that Humberto Ortega Saavedra was received at that military medical center on June 11 coming from his home – where he is under house arrest – with a complex health condition.
He explains that that time the retired soldier arrived with a “history of chronic high blood pressure, type 2 diabeteswearer of a permanent dual-chamber pacemaker, chronic atrial fibrillation, peripheral vascular disease and exacerbated chronic heart failure.”
The doctors also refer to the “patient’s progressive history that worsened 48 hours before admission.”for which he is taken to said military hospital unit.
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They add that he was also “complaining,” with “lung noises suggestive of worsening heart failure and with data of soft tissue infection in the left lower limb”presenting “sepsis and heart failure.”
The above, the statement added, “led to management of the patient in intensive care due to his serious condition and reserved prognosis.”highlighting that during his hospital stay his state of health “stabilized” and he managed to “overcome the severity”, being transferred to the hospitalization room under the care of a “multidisciplinary” medical team.
However, this Sunday“He presented a sudden deterioration in his condition.”says official information.
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Retired general Humberto Ortega (January 10, 1947), brother of the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, He was kept under surveillance at his residence in Managua after he questioned the “dictatorial” succession of the head of state.
In an interview with the Argentine media Infobae, published on May 19, Humberto Ortega said that The “dictatorial” power of his 78-year-old brother, who has been in power in Nicaragua since 2007, has no suitable successorsnor his wife Rosario Murillo nor any of his children, and that in the event of an absence or death there will be a great power vacuum, so elections must be called.
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On May 28, Ortega, about to turn 79, declared his younger brother a “traitor to the country.”retired general Humberto Ortega, the most emblematic and recent case of the fissures in Sandinismo.
The former head of the Army, one of the strategists of the armed insurrection against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, in 1979, He is under surveillance at his residence in Managua after questioning the “dictatorial” succession of the head of state.
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According to the Nicaraguan press, after isolating the former head of the Army, whose cell phones and computers were retained, The authorities have arrested retired general Orlando Talavera Siles and former deputy director of the National Police Jorge Guerreroboth trained in the area of intelligence.
