MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Argentine president improving from hypotension bout resumes activities Thursday

CFK was scheduled to open state of the art publishing plant to promote book publishing in Argentina

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner showed “improvement” after suffering from a bout of hypotension Tuesday and will resume presidential activities as of Thursday, said doctors from the Government House.

Presidential Medical Unit Doctor Marcelo Ballesteros stated, “The Nation’s President, Dr Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, is showing signs of improvement after suffering from hypotension yesterday, forcing her to cancel all official appointments.”

As a precaution the President has been recommended to rest for another day and resume activities on Thursday.

The Presidency Secretary General Oscar Parrilli who is usually the first person CFK meets every morning to discuss the daily agenda and activities, remained Wednesday at his office in the Casa Rosada where he held several meetings.

On Tuesday CFK was scheduled to attend the opening of a state of the art printing and graphics plant which recently acquired new equipment from Italy valued at over 4 million dollars with government support.

The plant is part of the Argentine policy of substituting imports. Precisely books have been retained by Customs and informed verbally of the matching dollar for dollar import/export scheme the country applies to promote Argentine jobs and the domestic market. The policy is already effective for the auto and pharmaceutical industries.

The Argentine president has not been seen in public since last Friday when she headed a rally next to Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli and officially opened the re-equipped “Alberto Ballestrini” hospital and other public works.

From the rally the President and her family flew to her private residence in El Calafate, Patagonia where she spent the weekend before returning to Buenos Aires Monday with her daughter Florencia.