BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner has been ordered to rest for a month after doctors found a brain hemorrhage linked to an August incident, her spokesman said Saturday.
Kirchner, 60, “sustained the head injury August 12 and had tests at the time that showed nothing,” spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro said.
But new tests identified the chronic subdural hematoma, a type of hemorrhage, and “doctors ordered her to rest for a month,” he said in a statement.
Scoccimarro said that Argentina’s first democratically-elected female leader was not ordered to be on total rest.
He did not immediately say how much she would be working, but added that Kirchner would be receiving follow-up treatment.
Kirchner’s spokesman did not indicate whether Vice President Amado Boudou would take over any of her duties during her recovery.
Boudou, 50, is a former economy minister.
Kirchner has had several health concerns while in office described as cerebrovascular in nature.
She was in full campaign swing for congressional elections on Oct 27.
Recent polls have indicated the government could lose control of Congress, an outcome that would deprive Kirchner of the chance of introducing a constitutional reform that would allow her to run for a third term in 2015. — AFP