Miguel Uribe Turbay: Senator Uribe Turbay remains “in critical condition” but “stable”, according to medical part

The Colombian presidential senator and candidate Miguel Uribe Turbayinjured in an attack last Saturday, “remains in critical condition” but “stable,” said the Santa Fe Foundation of Bogotáwhere it is admitted.

According to that medical center, “The patient Miguel Uribe Turbay Continue in the Intensive Care Unitwith all the monitoring and care it requires, remaining in critical condition. ”

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A member of the Police custody an entrance of the Santa Fe Clinical Foundation this Monday, where the presidential senator and candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay (Colombia) is attended. EFE/ Mauricio Dueñas Castañeda

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“In that strip of complexity it is stable and the interventions carried out in these recent hours maintain their conditionadd the medical part, third that is emitted on the politician.

Uribe Turbay39 years, he was shot dead on Saturday afternoon when he participated in a rally in the Bogota neighborhood of Modeliaand was surgically intervened the same day in the Santa Fefor the wounds suffered in the head and in one leg.

“We continue to perform the necessary actions to mitigate the impact of the injuries he received”, indicates the medical part, which adds that “Its severity and prognosis are still previously reported”.

In front of the clinic, dozens of followers of the politician and his party remain, the Center Democraticin the opposition, as well as journalists waiting for news about its evolution.

Vigil is permanent in the Santa Fe where the senator’s wife, María Claudia Tarazonaand other relatives have participated in prayer chains and received the visit of a good part of the country’s political class.

Uribe Turbay He is the grandson of the former liberal president Julio César Turbaywho ruled Colombia Between 1978 and 1982, while her mother, the journalist Diana Turbay Quinteroshe was kidnapped and murdered in 1991 by drug traffickers at the service of the capo Pablo Escobar.

The murder attempt has been convicted by Colombian society and by international organizations amid claims to the government to guarantee the safety of candidates for Legislative elections and presidentials next year.

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