Madrid, 23 nov (EFE).-the King Juan Carlos of Spain arrived this afternoon at a hospital in Madrid to be surgically intervened in the left hip where will you be implanted a prosthesis to solve problems of wear suffered the joint as a result of osteoarthritis.

“Today that go to the workshop,” joked the monarch arriving at Hospital San Jose, after getting off the window of his car to greet the numerous reporters awaiting him.

hospital sources said that the operation will begin towards 20.00 local time (1900 GMT), a day after they submit to the last preoperative medical tests, in particular a densitometry bone.

medical team plans to make public a statement on the outcome of the operation and is not ruled out that any member of the Royal family attend this evening the health centre to visit the monarch.

the Head of the Spanish State announced that it was to operate again in the hip during the recent Ibero-American Summit of Cadiz, held on 16 and 17 November at

is his third operation on the hip, and the sixth surgical intervention which has to undergo in the past two years and half, traumatological, character most arising from accidents or problems with wear bone.

today, with the Spanish Head of State will have entered his life in the operating room on eleven occasions.

’s been seven months since the last operation of the monarch, on 27 April, in the same hospital San Jose, to reduce a dislocation in the right hip caused by a bad move after a meeting which had been held in the Palacio de la Zarzuela with the emirati Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

the Verletzung befand sich im selben Teil der Hüfte, die zufällig, während einer privaten Reise nach Botswana zur Teilnahme an einer Jagd auf Elefanten, gebrochen hatte und hatte wenige Tage zuvor, am 14. April unterziehen.

König Juan Carlos bei seiner Ankunft so spät zum Krankenhaus San José de Madrid, operiert in der linken Hüfte, werden wo man implantiert eine Prothese zur Lösung der Probleme der Abnutzung, die durch gemeinsame Arthrose leidet. EFE