Africa-Press – Angola. The Head of State, João Lourenço, considered, on Wednesday (29), in Lisbon, Portugal, the health condition of former President José Eduardo dos Santos, who is in intensive care at a hospital in Barcelona, is worrying. , Spain.
“More than that, only the medical teams will be able to comment”, said the President of the Republic, adding that he is monitoring the situation “closely and with great concern”.
“Proof of this is that today (June 29), from here in Lisbon, I dispatched Minister Téte António (of Angola’s Foreign Affairs) to Barcelona,” he said.
During the interaction with the press, at the end of the visit to the CPLP headquarters, he said that he has been in contact with the family of José Eduardo dos Santos, to find out about his health.
He recalled, as an example, the conversation he had, on the 24th of this month, by telephone, in a gesture of solidarity, with the former First Lady of the Republic, who is in Barcelona.
On this subject, a note issued by the Presidency of the Republic, on this day, on the social media page, adds that the initiative of the Head of State, in calling Ana Paula dos Santos, resulted from the sequence of information about the deterioration of the state. health of the former President of the Republic.
The former President of the Republic traveled to Barcelona for medical treatment for the first time in 2019. José Eduardo dos Santos, 79, came to power in September 1979, following the death of the first President of Angola and Founder of the Nation, António Agostinho Neto.
News published in recent days reported the worsening state of health of the former statesman.
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