Argentina President Cristina Fernandez’s brain surgery was successful.
Fernandez was diagnosed with “chronic subdural hematoma” or blood clot formation in the brain on Sunday. She was then advised by the doctors to take a month off from work. Come Monday, she was told she need to undergo the procedure to remove the blood clot from her brain.
According to doctors, the blood clot formation may have been linked to the head injury she had in August. Her brain scan during the time showed normal but a few days later, she started experiencing migraine-like symptoms. Chronic subdural hematoma is really undetectable for few days.
The brain surgery was performed at at one of Argentina’s top cardiology facilities – Fundacion Favaloro.
Many Argentines were worried not only for the health of their president but for their country, as well, which will be left with no leader. Some offered prayer and some wished.
However, people were immediately relieved when Argentine Vice President Amado Boudou, who faces a corruption investigation, was told to take over and be in charge of the country during the president's medical leave.
Alfredo Scoccimarro, the president's spokesman announced that the operation, which took a couple of hours, “went very well.”
Scoccimarro added in a statement, “The president is in good spirits ad is already in her room.”
Due to this circumstance, Fernandez, who is on leave of absence, will have to stop campaigning for congressional elections.
According to some opinion polls, the Argentine government could lose control of the Congress on the October 27 poll due to the president’s unexpected break from the campaign period and this will seem hard to deal with for her.
Even if Fernandez’s party has done well in the primaries on a nationwide level, it didn’t do well and failed to win a major position in the place where her biggest competitor Sergio Massa, also a former cabinet chief, has won over Fernandez’ candidate – in the province of Buenos Aires.
