Antonio Gasalla He was urgently admitted to the Otamendi Sanatorium with pneumonia. The famous 83-year-old actor is known to have been facing serious health problems for a long time.
“There is a lot of concern about Antonio’s health. He already had some complications, he is hospitalized in critical condition. We can’t say more, because we don’t know,” said journalist Carlos Monti on his program Busybodies (NetTV).
Clarion was able to confirm that the capocomic has been hospitalized since Monday.
Days ago, Carlos Gasalla, his brother, was witnessing the theatrical premiere of Waiting for the carriage and gave some details about the actor’s health. “Antonio is very careful, but unfortunately he has an illness that does not allow him to circulate.”
Antonio Gasalla is already 83 years old. They admitted him on Monday. Photo Martin Bonetto
And he added: “We have been able to get it afloat. Alright. He also has some organic problems, but he is overcoming them. “There is no other remedy than to take care of him very well and move the situation forward.”
Gasalla suffers from severe cognitive damage that caused him to lose his memory and is almost not connected to reality. Due to his health problems, he had left acting a little over two years ago.
Although the details of his condition – progressive senile dementia – do not transcend, Gasalla is delicate. Capocomic, actor, director and unquestionable figure of Argentine entertainment, he has not acted in more than 1,500 days. Unknowingly, he said goodbye in January 2020.
In “The Palace of Laughter”, one of his hits on television. Photo Archive Clarín
Last January, Marcelo Polino went to visit his dear friend and commented on television: “Antonio no longer recognizes anyone and does not remember that he was an actor. I wanted to give him a hug before coming to Mar del Plata and I found myself with an Antonio whose pathology is going faster and faster”.
“In a month or so,” he said, “his cognitive deterioration was very great. He no longer knew me, he doesn’t know his brother, he doesn’t know that he was an actor…”. In the context of a sad panorama, Gasalla has very great help: “he meets a team of doctors and a family who are present daily,” added the driver.
“He even has a notebook in which we make him write the names and dates, so that he doesn’t lose his writing. But that already costs him a lot. I left there with great sadness, with great grief,” he detailed at the beginning. of year.
His friend Carlos Perciavalle also expressed himself. This was a few days ago, before the last hospitalization: “I saw him very well beyond the condition he suffers from. We held hands, he was smiling very much while he was talking to him and with those big eyes that he has, I was telling him that I got married and he responded by nodding his head. “I took the opportunity to send greetings from another great friend of ours, Graciela Borges,” he said to the media. Teleshow.
In September 2023, Gasalla was also in the news for a hospitalization. “It is a digestive issue that has been being treated,” it was reported at that time. According to his brother, Antonio was always “kind of reluctant” to doctors and when they had to admit him, “they did a general checkup and some things appeared that we didn’t know about.”
