The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, has been hospitalized for a urinary tract infection and has suspended his activities scheduled for Sunday and Monday.
The Ecuadorian Presidency has communicated that Lasso had a »fever and general malaise» after giving an interview to an international media, »reason for which he was transferred to the Military Hospital of Quito».
The medical team has recommended him to remain under observation in the hospital and to rest while he is being treated for this »health problem», according to a press release from the Presidency.
Lasso was scheduled to lead this Sunday a meeting of the State and Public Security Council in Esmeraldas, in the north of the country, where last week a massacre that left nine people dead took place.
The objective of the meeting was to define strategies against insecurity after the violence in the fishing port of Esmeraldas and the disturbances in several prisons of the country, reports the newspaper ‘Primicias’.
Since the beginning of the year, the president has had several health problems that have limited his function as president of the country, since he had an operation for a fractured fibula in February and was infected with COVID-19 in March.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
