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Worse health of former Argentine president Raul Alfonsin

(Add phone call from the president Cristina Fernandez)

Buenos Aires, 30 mar (EFE) .- Former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin, of 82 years, is in the delicate agravarseel cancer since 2007 have reported today and a doctor of my children.

Alfonsin have a bronco-pneumonia aspiratoria, but estarecuperando, he told the Alexander Sandler medical reporters, shortly after reviewing the former president, who remains in sudomicilio of Buenos Aires accompanied by their families.

It's something better, I left it sitting (in bed) by reading the diariojunto your family is lucid, fully connected with reality, he said.

After asserting that it is quite likely that Alfonsin serecupere this episode, Sandler recalled that former mandatariopadece lung cancer with bone metastases since 2007.

Ricardo Alfonsin, one of the sons of former president, acknowledged concerns of people for the health of his father at a time when rumors were rampant about the demise of whom fueel first democratic president after the last dictaduramilitar (1976-1983).

Speaking to reporters, Ricardo Alfonsin said claw argentina president, Cristina Fernandez, called today familiadel the former head of state to know their health status.

He called from Qatar (where he participates in the Summit of South America yPaises Arabs) and left him a kiss my father. supreocupacion We are very grateful, he said.

Raul Alfonsin, who ruled from 1983 to 1989, served 82 years on 12 March.

His last public appearance was in early October, when he attended the inauguration of a bust with his effigy in elsalon reminiscent of former Argentine president in Casares, seat of government, an act that led the head of State, Cristina Fernandez.

The former president was largely absent from the festivities 25aniversario of the country's return to democracy, commemorated el30 October 2008. EFE