Former Vice President Jorge Glas, who has been detained in a maximum security prison in the city of Guayaquil since last Saturday after being held at the Mexican embassy in Quito, had to be hospitalized after refusing to eat.
This information contradicted the version of those close to the former vice president who had warned about it the possibility of a suicide attempt by Glass due to a drug overdose.
Glass remains under observation According to the National Service for Comprehensive Care to Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI), the state correctional unit, he will return to prison after an examination at the Guayaquil Naval Hospital.
The source reported that Glass on Monday morning He did not follow the call to count the inmates in the maximum security prison La Roca and that health protocols were therefore activated when it was determined that the inmate had suffered decompensation due to “refusing to eat the food provided” in the previous 24 hours.
His condition is “stable”
Health Ministry medics took Glas to Guayaquil’s Naval Hospital, where he was admitted, but for now his status is “stable” and will remain under observation for the next few hours before returning to La Roca,” the source added.
In the morning, sources close to the former vice president and several media outlets warned that Glas had attempted suicide with an overdose of medication and had been transferred to the Guayaquil military hospital.
Even the digital media in Primicia reported this Glass would have been put into a medical comaAccording to a police report, the causes of the bankruptcy can be traced back to the “taking of anti-anxiety, antidepressant and sedative medications.”
Despite the press’s insistence, it took the prison authorities a while to resolve the incident.
Former President Correa, who lives in Belgium, also commented on Glas’s alleged transfer to a hospital on his X Network account, writing: “It was what I feared. The villains will jump for joy. Strength, Jorge!”
Glass was arrested last Friday a violent invasion by the Ecuadorian police into the Mexican embassy in Quito and finally transferred to the maximum security prison in Guayaquil.
The Ecuadorian police operation led to this Breaking off diplomatic relations between Mexico and Ecuador.