Jorma Pulkkinen says that he fell badly.
Jorma Pulkkinen in 2019. Anna Jousilahti
TV personality, presenter and car sports guru Jorma Pulkkinen, 84, fell in his backyard and was badly injured. He says on Facebook that the fall happened about ten meters away from his stable.
– Both ankle bones broke.
He was rushed to Peijas hospital. Pulkkinen has updated his condition on Facebook.
– I have been in Peijas for eight hours. Such is Finnish healthcare. Maybe they won’t cut until Sunday. I would have assumed that such an 84-year-old woman would have been treated immediately. The staff is good and friendly. I’ll get some painkillers soon. Burana is not enough for this pain, Pulkkinen said.
Pulkkinen has previously said that he acts as his wife Anna-Liisan as a caregiver.
– Anna-Liisa has amnesia, she has had this memory disorder for three years. I am a full-time wife’s nurse, working 24 hours a day, he said a year ago.
Pulkkinen is remembered as a beloved TV face in the 1980s, when he hosted the Ruutuysi and Ruutuäss programs together on Kolmoskanava and MTV3 Sirpa Viljamaan with. In addition, Pulkkinen became known in the 1980s and 1990s, for example, as the presenter of the Kultainen harmonica competition.
Reported about it Fuengirola.fi magazine.