Salvador Illa leaves the hospital and will continue his recovery at home

Barcelona"The president is progressing favorably and will continue his treatment with home hospitalization starting this afternoon." After two weeks, Salvador Illa is leaving Vall d'Hebron Hospital, where he was recovering from osteomyelitis, and will continue his recovery at home, under the care of the hospital's home hospitalization team. His progress is positive, according to doctors, "both from an analytical and radiological point of view." This afternoon, the hospital's managing director, Albert Salazar, along with the head of infectious diseases, Dolors Rodríguez, and the head of the home hospitalization service, Francesc Xavier Jiménez, will hold a press conference to explain the latest developments in the president's health.

Illa was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of Vall d'Hebron University Hospital on Saturday, January 17, after experiencing severe leg pain. Doctors ruled out tumorous and vascular causes that posed an imminent risk to his life during the following hours, but it took them a few days to diagnose exactly what was wrong with him.

Doctors explained that pubic osteomyelitis is a "very rare" infection caused by bacteria Streptococcus dysgalactiae, which is part of the normal flora of microbes present on the skin and in the pharynx and rarely causes infections. The medical team determined at that time that a minimum of two weeks of hospitalization would be necessary before the president could be discharged.

It is not yet known how many more weeks will pass before the president can return to his duties. Since he went on leave It has been the Minister of the Presidency, Albert Dalmau, who has led the Government.