The former Argentine president, Carlos Menem, is in an induced coma after suffering a complication of the kidney disease that led him to be admitted ten days ago to a hospital in Buenos Aires, according to the trans-Andean press.
Sources from Menem’s family environment have told the Argentine newspaper ‘La Nación’ that the doctors have detected a high dose of potassium in the blood that forced him to undergo dialysis to prevent the condition from worsening and, due to his delicate condition and advanced age, he has opted for induce a coma.
Menem, 90, has been admitted to the coronary unit of Sanatorio Los Arcos in Buenos Aires since last week due to a urinary infection that was complicated by heart problems. Last Sunday, his personal doctor, Luis de la Fuente, had reported a small improvement that kept him “stable.”
The former president, who ruled Argentina between 1989 and 1999, has had numerous health problems in recent times. Only during this year has he been admitted two more times, once for pneumonia and another for low blood saturation.
