Eduardo Pulgar: Barranquilla clinic refuses to hand over official medical report of the former senator

Although former Senator Eduardo Pulgar has been hospitalized for eight days at the La Misericordia Clinic in Barranquilla and it is in the interest of the Colombian justice system that he is serving his four-year and 10-month sentence, the healthcare center has not yet issued an official statement to the public about the suffering that led to the National Institute Penitentiary and Prison (Inpec) to place him there.

Some media have tried to obtain Pulgar's medical report, without much success. The closest thing to this is the information obtained by a source that works at La Misericordia and is referenced by the Caracol Radio station.

According to this source, whose identity is unknown, Eduardo Pulgar is presenting a hypertensive crisis, a coronary syndrome and a cardiac arrhythmia. The same source assured that, due to the seriousness of the clinical picture that the former senator of the U Party is going through, the time he needs to stay in hospitalization will be prolonged.

The former senator's coronary heart disease was already known, so the clinic would not be revealing new information if it said just that in a formal press release. However, according to the anonymous source who spoke with the station, they have not been able to make this official statement because the family has not authorized it.

Some journalists received this response with suspicion, considering that Pulgar fell ill on the same day that he would be transferred from a prison in Malambo (Atlántico) to La Picota Prison in Bogotá.

It is worth remembering that the Ministry of Justice ordered the change after the controversy in which INPEC is involved for allegedly providing benefits to certain prisoners. It was learned that officials of the entity granted irregular permits to businessman Carlos Mattos and lawyer Diego Cadena. Then, they suspect that other prisoners in the country are also receiving special treatment.

In the case of Pulgar, he is considered a “VIP convict”. In addition, since he is being held in Malambo, a municipality located in his native department, he could have influences thanks to close people. That is serious because the former congressman is paying a sentence for trading in influence and bribery, so he would have the opportunity to continue to commit crimes.

Eduardo Pulgar's romantic partner, Ana Ucrós, had tried to stop the transfer of the former senator through a guardianship action, arguing that the two-year-old daughter they have in common would violate her right to family unity by moving her father to the capital.

The First Civil Court of Soledad denied the request on March 22, arguing that “the fundamental right invoked by the transfer of the prisoner is not violated, since the primary fundamental right invoked by the family union is replaced by virtual visits.”

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