The announcer Cacho Fontana had to be hospitalized immediately in the last few hours due to a urinary tract infection that eventually worsened.

The famous radio and TV host’s hospitalization was confirmed by his own daughter, Antonella, in a dialogue with journalist Juan Etchegoyen, from Radio Miter. Fontana turned 90 on April 23.

The presenter, who is remembered by many others in his works of the television series Odol Question, is confined to Fernandez Hospital, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo. As reported in Clarion Ignacio Previgliano, medical director of Hospital Fernández, Fontana was affected by “sepsis secondary to urinary tract infection.” And he was stable and placed in a general room.

Sepsis is an “overwhelming and intense” response of the body to an infection, it can be read on the site Medline Plus. “Sepsis is a life -threatening medical emergency. If there is no immediate treatment, it can cause tissue damageorgan failure and even death, ”details the prestigious medical information site.

In recent years, Fontana has faced a series of pulmonary episodes, which began in June 2020, when he had covid-19 in the nursing home where she lived for several years.

Although he was healed at that time, the virus left him with pulmonary sequelaewhich seriously complicated the subsequent pneumonia that plagued him in February 2021.

A few months later, in April, he contracted covid-19 again. In that case he remained hospitalized in Fernández for ten days with strict monitoring.

A radio hero

Born as Norberto Palese in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas, Fontana is recognized as one of the emblems of national radio.

In 2019, at age 87, he is back in his great love along the cycle A Piece of the National, of National Radio (AM 870). The shipments of that program included prestigious guests such as Juan José Campanella, Graciela Borges, Guillermo Francella, María Laura Santillan, Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú, Héctor Larrea, Palito Ortega, Moria Casán and Jorge Lanata, among others.

Cacho’s return to radio activity, 60 years after the mythical Odol Question, has helped recover his health, but also contributed to the broadcaster’s economyto admit that if not for the help received it would be “difficult to survive”.

“People will think I don’t know what I did with the money … When I had the money I bought a house for my daughters, for their future. Now. I have a minimum pension“Cacho said at that time.

In 2018, Cacho recounted how he was living this stage of his life. In the dialogue with Clarionsaid: “Old age is something I didn’t expect. I don’t know what it is, it stands. It’s so hard when one is packed to think it’s going to be great. It’s not easy to get over that you have no commitment on hand, no obligation to get up. I don’t feel like I’m retired now, but I feel like I’ve finished a cycle. “

The radio program featured a family group. Her daughter Antonella was the producer of the cycle, while the driver’s ex -wife Liliana Caldini, also participated.

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