Roberto Furca: “Thank God I’m alive”

Former Education Minister Roberto Furca yesterday detailed the events affecting his health.

In his account, Furca, accompanied by his family and key medical team, presents multiple images of the grossest and most subtle episodes in the health process he had to go through, events that led to his extensive and intense acceptance. Treatment is the same at home as it is abroad.

He emphasized that in the first quarter of 2022, the discomfort he suffered was even more serious, the gastritis prevented him from living in peace or peace, accompanied by intestinal pain, colic, and the repeated feeling of needing to go to the hospital brought terrible discomfort. Toileting and incontinence during evacuation.

His doctors initially determined that the gastritis was related to all the stressful conditions he was exposed to while performing his duties as Secretary of Education, and to rule out other causes, they applied procedures such as an endoscopy and a colonoscopy. “The team of doctors who treated me came to the conclusion that the emotional part was a big factor in the disease not being fully healed because I wasn’t getting physical rest, was emotionally stressed, couldn’t eat or sleep,” said Furca .

He also highlighted that he had lost at least 50 pounds because of the severe pain and repeated urges to go to the bathroom that prevented him from sleeping.