Teresa Perales will return to Spain in a medicalized plane during the next few days

The Aragonese swimmer Teresa Perales will return to Spain in the near future, in a medicalized plane from Such, and upon arrival in the country she will be transferred to a hospital to continue with the medical studies that are being carried out since last Sunday she had to be admitted to a hospital in Japan, reported in a statement Spanish Paralympic Committee.

The doctors Tomás Fernández Jaén and Josefina Espejo, top managers of the medical service of the Spanish Paralympic team, remain at all times with Teresa Perales in the Tokyo hospital center, where she arrived last Sunday after suffering a “picture of stress and anxiety” and from which they hope to leave “as soon as possible. Spain, with all the health and safety guarantees for her “.

Teresa Perales’ family wants to convey its “public gratitude to the medical staff of the CPE as well as to the hospital where the athlete is in Japan, for the excellent professional and human treatment they are giving her.”

The swimmer’s health status is unknown. From the CPE they inform that by “express wish of the environment closest to the athlete, no new information will be provided in relation to her medical condition and it will be Teresa herself or her family who will make the communications when they deem it appropriate.”

The Spanish Paralympic Committee thanks “Spanish society in general and the media in particular for their interest and respect for our athlete and the magnificent support they have once again given us at the Tokyo Paralympic Games.”

Teresa Perales competed in four tests at these Paralympic Games in Tokyo, in which she achieved a medal in the 50-meter backstroke and three diplomas.

CPE statement

“The Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), with the collaboration of Sanitas and the Embassy of Spain in Tokyo, has put all the means at its disposal to ensure that Teresa returns to Spain as soon as possible, with all the safety and health guarantees for The heads of the Medical Service of the Spanish Paralympic Team, doctors D. Tomás Fernández Jaén and Dª Josefina Espejo, have remained at all times with the swimmer in the Tokyo hospital, where she is receiving treatment and care excellent. In the next few days it will be reported that Teresa is already flying to our country. “

[Más información: Teresa Perales, ingresada durante los Juegos Paralímpicos por un cuadro de ansiedad]

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