Overview
- Illa remains at Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron hospital, clinically stable, with an expected stay of about two weeks that includes intensive rehabilitation.
- Angio-CT and repeated MRI scans have ruled out emergent vascular, traumatic and tumoral causes, and doctors are evaluating a possible inflammatory origin.
- The president experienced acute loss of strength and severe pain in his legs after running, a deficit that tests suggest could allow walking but is limited by pain.
- Physicians plan to move him from intensive monitoring to the spinal-injury and rehabilitation ward as early as Monday to start intensive therapy.
- Illa has canceled his agenda, posted that he is well and in good spirits, and has received public support from national and Catalan leaders while government operations continue normally.