The former Brazilian Edson Arantes do Nascimento ‘Pelé’ presents an improvement in the respiratory infection, although continues “without forecast of medical discharge”when they are going to be fulfilled two weeks after your hospitalizationas reported by his doctors on Monday.
“Still without a discharge forecast, the patient continues to show improvement in his clinical condition, especially in the respiratory infection,” said the latest bulletin from the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, where he has been hospitalized since last November 29.
The triple world champion, 82 years old and under treatment for colon cancer“remains in a common room, conscious and with stable vital signs.”
Kely Nascimento, one of the daughters of the former Santos and New York Cosmos player, returned to Brazil to closely monitor her father’s clinical evolution and this Monday, from the hospital, she published a photograph of their hands intertwined.
According to his doctors, Pelé you were hospitalized about two weeks ago to evaluate a change in chemotherapy treatment to which he has been subjected since a colon tumor was removed in September 2021.
Days later, they reported that they also had a respiratory infection. The infection arose after the former soccer player contracted Covid-19 a month ago, according to his daughters.
family too has denied press reports according to which Pelé, considered by many to be the best footballer in history, is no longer responding to chemotherapyso his doctors decided to suspend him and go to palliative care.
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He also asked Neymar to continue in the Canarinha, after the doubts raised by the Paris Saint-Germain forward, thanked the support of the Frenchman Kylian Mbappé and consoled the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, after also losing in the quarterfinals against Morocco.