Monday, January 9, 2012

Oscar Parrilli: 'CFK’s order was to tell it all'

The government’s Chief-of-Staff Oscar Parrilli told a local radio station today that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner order was to “tell it all” regarding her December 22th diagnosis for Thyroid Cancer, that turned out to be a "false positive" case.

The official also added that the Head of State is “in good spirit” and is to receive the visit of surgeon Pedro Saco to continue the post surgery treatment.

Parrilli also questioned the coverage certain Argentine media gave to the case. On particular, the Chief-of-Staff lashed out at Clarín newspaper, a long standing government adversary for its articles, who yesterday referred to the President's operation as a case of "medical malpractice", as the first diagnosis given to the President was that of thyroid cancer.

“We gave out all the information. When it was proven she did not have what was diagnosed, they rebelled against reality. It was like reality didn’t fit their economic and political interests so they tried to distort it,” he said.

“All the information was released as it happened. It is a medical condition that is within two percent of the statistics and called a 'false positive'. The President was within 100 percent of this two percent and that should be celebrated”, Parrilli remarked.