Montevideo, Uruguay — Uruguay’s leftist ex-president Jose Mujica, 85, returned home Wednesday after swallowing a fishbone and requiring surgery, doctors said.
Surgeons found no foreign object in Mujica’s esophagus, but observed an injury consistent with him having swallowed a fishbone, said Andres Munyo, who performed the procedure.
“Sometimes, foreign objects cause damage… on their way to the digestive tract. Now we wait for this wound to heal, which will take about 10, 15 days,” he told a press conference.
After confirming that Mujica was able to eat, it was decided to send him home to his farm on the outskirts of Montevideo, added Mujica’s personal physician, Raquel P…
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