Former Argentinian president and current senator Carlos Menem was in a vulnerable condition in a sanatorium in Buenos Aires on Friday due to a kidney failure in recent hours.
Menem, 90, who reigned for two consecutive periods between 1989 and 1999, is in Los Arcos hospital in the Argentinian capital for ten days, and on Christmas Eve was joined by his ex-wife Zulema Yoma and his daughter Zulemita Menem.
Yoma told the press that the state of the Peronist lawmaker is “delicate.”
Menem was admitted to that health center on December 15 for a urinary tract infection.
In the following days, those close to the ex-president indicated that he was under control because of his heart failure, which was later added to kidney failure.
Menem had other health problems throughout the year.
On July 2, the senator turned 90 years old while hospitalized for low blood oxygen saturation. A few days earlier, he had been released from another health center after being hospitalized for bacterial pneumonia.