Caracas, 17 mar (EFE).-the Minister of health of Venezuela, Eugenia Sader, today told Efe that President Hugo Chavez is being treated by a “multidisciplinary team” which is convinced that the President will exceed the relapse of cancer, which was again operated the past February 26 in la Habana.
Chavez is being attended by “a multidisciplinary team that we are working together”, noted Sader without specifying the specialties or the countries that make up the team of doctors.
“We are all insurance, doctors and not doctors, that he will overcome this battle as he has demonstrated”, the Minister continued.
The President yesterday returned to Venezuela after three weeks of stay in Cuba, where was operated on 26 February of a cancerous tumor, recurrence of the cancer from which he appeared almost nine months ago also in Havana and that have not given more details beyond that is located in the pelvic area.
Sader defended the fact that not the nature of the cancer that afflicts the President, has spread widely criticized by the Venezuelan opposition decision.
“There is one thing that is called medical confidentiality and is what the patient wants to say.” “Your health privacy is private for you, it is your right to preserve,” considered Sader, who accompanied the head of State for a few days in treatment in Cuba.
Said that Chavez “has made public” medical reports and that “he says all the time that has the tumor in the abdominal via.” “He has said that he wants to say,” he added.
Sader said that Chavez still has not been submitted to sessions of radiation therapy, a treatment that the President has already announced that it was going to need reiterating, however, has no metastases.
According to the Minister, the beginning of radiation therapy will not occur but “several weeks” after the operation, although not stated if the treatment will take place in Venezuela or in Cuba.
Chávez today rejoined his followers by ensuring that the cancer may not with him and prefiguring a triumph “memorable” in presidential elections next October, in which seeks a third re-election and will compete with the candidate of the opposition, Henrique Capriles unit.
“The President is as you see.” “I see it as a warrior fighting as he himself says, climbing the slope and enthusiastic”, stated the Minister. EFE
