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CFK breaks ankle after domestic accident in Santa Cruz

Saturday, December 27th 2014 - 08:38 UTC
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner airlifted to Buenos Aires clinic late Friday. Presidential Medical Unit confirms it's a fracture, not a sprain, as it had been assumed at first . Read full article

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  • mollymauk

    Oh no Paulie, Rio Gallegos did not have an MRI scanner working for the President! What is Argentina coming to!

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 08:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Englander

    Poor woman is becoming a bit accident prone.

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 09:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • zathras

    1 mollymauk (#)...Good call

    “Regional Hospital of Rio Gallegos”...“It was reported that the MRI and other medical examinations that needed to be done were beyond the facility's technical capabilities”.

    Remember this article when the Trolls bang on about an Island with a Population of merely 3000 does not have a MRI scanner.

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 10:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vulcanbomber

    if she was a horse, she would have been shot

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 10:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    Did anyone see her Christmas message and party? She was knocking back the plonk and rambling…… Just sayin'.

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    All those facilities used and having money spent on them when there are others living in ramshackle, corrugated, tin places. And then there are also those who live in what argies call 'villa miserias'.

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 10:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • brasherboot

    It was the British that did it!

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Mendoza Canadian

    And it cost how much to air-lift her to BsAs?? And they don't have a simple X-ray machine in Rio Galegos? That's all the rest of us would get...an MRI seems unnecessary. Last report in the news here is that it was a “simple” fracture. Sort of like when Maximo had a tummy ache and had to be flown back to BsAs as the hospital there wasn't good enough.

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • falklandlad

    Fantastic, plenty of tricks in the ole dog yet - she got a leg up at Christmas!

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Argentina’s president adopts Jewish godson to counteract werewolf legend
    http://www.jewishaz.com/us_worldnews/world/argentina-s-president-adopts-jewish-godson-to-counteract-werewolf-legend/article_0d6587a2-8d2c-11e4-bbe5-9b439572122d.html

    They're all crazy down there.
    All of them.

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • BLACK CAT

    Couple of Botox injections and you'll be up and running in no time a all

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 12:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • imoyaro

    Saw this last night on BAH and wondered what it was really all about. She can't be treated for a sprained ankle in Santa Cruz? Who's she really in town to deal with?

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    NO MRI SCANNER!!!

    I feel really, really, sorry TMBOA didn't break her fucking neck.

    That would have been a real present for the Falklanders and everybody in Uruguay.

    Perhaps it happened swinging off the chandelier, nod, nod, wink, wink!

    But in reality it was her broomstick.

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vectis

    Shame it wasn't her neck

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    I think the over prescribed lithium makes her light headed and dizzy so she falls down a lot.
    She slurs her words often in public too.
    She is not a well woman
    Maybe she can recover in a USA jail.

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    @8 Maximo had a hurty knee.

    What happens when average Jose fractures an ankle in Rio Gallegos? Do they get airlifted to BsAs? Is BsAs the only place in Argentina with a working MRI?

    I think she should not mix meds with alcohol, she was the office drunk on her Christmas broadcast.

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vectis

    evolutionary control, She has to keep taking the pills or she regresses back to an ape but that is insulting to apes

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    What did I say...lolol

    Any excuse..

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 12:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    PABLO PERONIST ULTRA-K !!!

    Ha ha ha - this is SO funny!!

    You look like an utter fool !!

    Doesn't Rio Gallegos have a population of more than 3,000 ???

    And yet, NO MRI Scanner !!!

    C'mon Chimp-Boy Pablo, do all the loyal Argentine citizens of Gallegos get flown by government jet to BA, for simple X-Rays or MRI's ???

    Maybe the Falklanders could have put a good word in for her, and she could have been flown to a first-rate hospital in Chile??

    Doctors and officials have now used this event ton warn the public about the results of “aggressive sexual foreplay” overtaxing the already strained State medical services.

    Is it true that CFK was just too jealous of the attention the people were giving to Christmas, and commemorating that kid's birthday, that she had to do something dramatic??

    It's too funny, Pablo - what a wacky world you live in!!

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Just crying for attention,
    but done worry
    come the new year, she will be back crying at the UN ..lol

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • LEPRecon

    @8 Mendoza Canadian

    Yes it does seem like overkill for a simple fractured ankle. In most places an x-ray would suffice because it is the BEST tool for diagnosing broken bones.

    MRI's are for soft tissue, that x-rays can't really see very well, and are very, very expensive to do, and won't tell a doctor anything that the x-ray wouldn't.

    I think this is more a case of the fact that there aren't any decent medical facilities left outside of big cities, and the President feels herself the ordinary people of Argentina, so therefore deserves better.

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britworker

    You would think with all that rubber in her that she would just bounce back up.

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 01:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    22 Britworker

    “You would think with all that rubber in her that she would just bounce back up”

    Classic!!!

    I do hope that they took the opportunity to tighten the bolts in her neck as well.

    Perhaps they should have hosed her down with paraffin at the same time?

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 01:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • imoyaro

    Buenos Aires Herald is back to calling it just a sprain. ;)

    http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/178160/cfk-back-in-ba-due-to-sprain

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 01:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • gordo1

    “The president was prescribed “immobilization, symptomatic treatment and evolutionary control,” the statement said.”

    What does this mean in real talk? Does it mean she must be kept out of the view of human observers? Let's hope so!

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 02:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    She probably fell down and knocked her head again.
    For the umpteenth time

    You'd think one of these times some sense would be knocked in with it

    alas...

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 02:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Vectis

    She must have done it when she was doing the Hokey Cokey

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Voice

    They sent her an advance copy of Top Gear Patagonia and its been reported she broke her ankle kicking the TV in a hissy fit.

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    Pablo Cedrone is afraid to speak LOL!!

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 05:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • MATTAT694

    Haha.....I heard that she had tripped on one of the many suitcases that are stuffed with looted cash..!

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    Since she got whisked off to hospital so quickly, Kiciloff is still chained up in the “Dungeon Room” with the blindfold and the leather face mask !!

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 31 Troy Tempest

    The mental picture is SO funny.

    :o)

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Evil Colonialist Pirate

    Time to blame the “Piratas”...

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • chronic

    Poor ole thang!

    I don't know if she will make it through the balance of her term. Hope she lives long enough to be indicted along with the rest of the perronistas.

    Try to take care of youself, Cretina. If you get to feeling faint - be sure to leave a treasure map for Paul! (GPS coordinates, account numbers, key codes, etc) OK?

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 07:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Iron Man

    Hmmm - domestic incident eh? Does this mean she broke her foot on fat Max's ass?

    You sense he is being set up as the best way to ensure she doesn't get indicted for her crimes. Sod the people it is all about looking after the powerful.

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    @ 31 Troy Tempest

    Oh dear god!!! Really???

    Now, pass me the mind bleach.......

    Much, much, LOLz !!!

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 09:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    Paulieboy - we are bereft and shocked - how can your great city of Rio Gallegos - with what - 60-70,000 plus people and a surrounding province area of another 20-30,000 not have at least 4 CT Scanners? -Please - we are all shocked - please explain?

    Dec 27th, 2014 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    imbeciles
    of course thare are diagnóstico por imágenes in santa cruz, you assholes.
    here you have 1:
    http://www.guiamas.com.ar/cedimag-995211

    and another:
    http://www.guiamas.com.ar/cedimag-995211

    but the thing is, you hillbillies, that her problem is not a broken ankle, but mental issues.
    http://www.guiamas.com.ar/cedimag-995211

    how the fuck dare you compare an argentine province with the islets, eh???

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 01:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    @31
    Lol

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 01:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    well with Brazil now set to buy the British Sea Ceptor misile,
    no wonder CFK is crying.

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 02:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Frank

    38 paulcedron “are diagnóstico por imágenes in santa cruz, you assholes.”

    Yes but do they work???

    nothing else in RG land does.... the planes, the trains, the boats, the economy........ the people....

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 03:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    41 Frank

    Come on Frank, obviously, CFK doesn't care if they work - certainly its standard procedure to fly all Argies to BA, right??

    70,000 - and NO MRI !!!

    Ha ha Pablo

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 03:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • imoyaro

    @38
    Paul, please. STFU. ;)

    http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/imoyaro/chopperlaff_zpsrpl58kjd.gif

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 04:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    Frank they do when the parts are replaced and if the electricky is on. I think stevie and PC are getting upset.....notice her foul mouth....lol

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 05:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    43 LOL!!

    “Chopper” and “Pablo ChimpBoy” pictures... !!!

    Pablo - Chimp-Boy,

    look at this:

    “The president had been taken in the afternoon to the Regional Hospital of Rio Gallegos, which she left in a wheelchair. It was reported that the MRI and other medical examinations that needed to be done were beyond the facility's technical capabilities”

    No X-Ray???!!
    No MRI ?? !!

    Chuckle chuckle Pablo - very apparent the 'Heslth Care' and equipment is not good enough!!

    How dare you compare the Falklands to an Argie province - how embarrassing for your country!!

    Things are getting worse and worse Pablo...

    - Top Gear was veryyy funny,

    - CFK adopts Jewish boy to prevent him from becoming a werewolf,

    - CFK injures herself to return the attention of the mases to herself over Christmas...

    Just to name a few things.

    What a wacky wacky world your country is.... heh heh heh...

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 05:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • The Voice

    Ah! But what it means is they have a machine but dont/cant use it. You have to remember this is Argyland - Destroyers rust and roll over, submarines sink, icebreakers are beyond repair, railways crash, etc etc Any complex equipment is either beyond them or breaks down. Place is populated by retards and morons who can only use things they steal still working.

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 10:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    Hey Paulie - if everything is so good medical wise in Santa Cruz province - why has Clinica Magallanes in Punta Arenas currently embarked on a multimillion dollar expansion project of its International facilities which are directly aimed at the increasing number of patients it has coming from southern Argentina?

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CabezaDura2

    Que vieja culo roto... Cuando te vas a morir @CFKArgentina? Chorra

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @38. Come on, girlie, you must be able to better than that. A map? And a guy cutting a ribbon? Around the world whatever is published in the media is suspect. And in the argie media? Not so much suspect as almost certainly lies.

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 02:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    38. I would assume the hospitals are prioritizing gauze, syringes, medical gloves over maintaining machinery that needs imported parts.
    The Rg health system is in complete collapse.
    I wouldn't go there for a band aid.
    Gosh knows what you'll come out with.

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 02:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Leiard

    Cristina's face was transfigured - said one of the casual witnesses of their income - had dark glasses and distilled anger

    http://opisantacruz.com.ar/home/2014/12/26/ultimo-momento-cristina-fernandez-se-esginzo-y-salio-en-sillas-de-ruedas-del-hospital-regional-de-rio-gallegos/25994

    Fernández hijaks airport

    http://opisantacruz.com.ar/home/2014/12/26/ultimo-momento-cristina-fernandez-se-esginzo-y-salio-en-sillas-de-ruedas-del-hospital-regional-de-rio-gallegos/25994

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 06:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • imoyaro

    @50
    “En ese momento, a Máximo le informaron que no podrían hacerle una resonancia magnética, debido a que ni el Resonador ni el Tomógrafo, funcionan en el hospital.”

    Sounds like you were right about the machinery.

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • zathras

    51 Leiard (#)

    Thanks for the link.

    Sounds like CFK doesn't care much about the ordinary people, no surprise there.

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    Argentina is just a few steps behind Venezuela:

    Besides getting away with money, watches, mobile phones and even the keys and ownership documents of the tourists' vehicles, they also “made off with a purebred puppy that they snatched from the hands of a little girl,” the daily said.

    The assailants, the newspaper said, stayed for about an hour on the beach, after which local residents protested the supposed delay of police in coming to their rescue by blocking a number of streets with logs and tires.

    http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/12/27/armed-bandits-rob-300-tourists-on-venezuela-beach/

    Dec 28th, 2014 - 11:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Perhaps 2015 will see the end of Argentina /CFK as we know it,
    so they say.

    Dec 29th, 2014 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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