Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is recovering well after undergoing surgery over the weekend for acute peritonitis, according to a medical report released Monday.
The Peronist leader was hospitalised for "acute appendicitis with localised peritonitis" on Saturday.
"The patient is currently undergoing antibiotic treatment and maintaining peritoneal drainage, with no fever or complications so far," said the statement from the private Sanatorio Otamendi in Buenos Aires, where the veteran politician remains hospitalised.
She will remain under care until her treatment programme is completed, said the report.
Fernández de Kirchner, 72, is currently being held under house arrest at her apartment at Calle San José 1111 in Recoleta, Buenos Aires City, as she serves a six-year sentence for a corruption conviction.
The former president was transferred with judicial authorisation after complaining of abdominal pain, her media team said.
"She will remain hospitalised until the relevant treatment is completed," the medical report concluded.
Fernandez de Kirchner, a dominant and polarising figure in Argentina's politics for more than two decades, served two terms as president from 2007-2015 and returned as vice-president to Alberto Fernández de from 2019-2023.
The veteran Peronist was also first lady from 2003-2007, when her late husband Néstor Kirchner was president.
Fernandez de Kirchner's frontline political career ended in June when the Supreme Court upheld her corruption conviction over the awarding of public works contracts in the southern Patagonia region when she was president.
She was sentenced to six years in prison, which she was allowed to serve under house arrest with an electronic ankle monitor, and banned from holding public office for the rest of her life.
– TIMES/AFP/NA
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