Rock star Gustavo Cerati, recovering from stroke in Venezuela, arrives home in Argentina
By APMonday, June 7, 2010
Rock star Cerati flown home to Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine rock star Gustavo Cerati, who had been hospitalized for more than three weeks in Venezuela after suffering a stroke, was flown home Monday aboard a specially equipped plane.
The air ambulance flight from Venezuela’s capital arrived in Buenos Aires and Cerati was taken off the plane on a stretcher. Television footage showed an ambulance driving him to a private clinic in Agentina’s capital escorted by police.
Cerati was accompanied by relatives and one of his Venezuelan neurologists. A group of doctors and paramedics came from Houston to assist in the journey.
“He wasn’t conscious. He was stabilized. The flight was perfect and he arrived in the same state he was in when he left Caracas,” said Mauricio Palaqua, an official with the insurance company that arranged the flight.
The 50-year-old former lead singer of the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo was hospitalized May 16 after fainting at the end of a concert. He later underwent brain surgery.
His doctors have said he is able to breathe on his own and his condition is stable. They have yet to specify what lasting effects the stroke may cause.
