SAO PAULO — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro remained hospitalized with stomach ache Saturday and was anticipated to be transferred by medical plane from northeastern Brazil to the capital Brasilia, medical doctors instructed journalists.
Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized Friday morning with stomach ache whereas touring in northeastern Brazil. The ache was brought on by a bowel obstruction and was associated to long-term results of being stabb ed within the stomach in September 2018, his medical doctors stated.
Bolsonaro has been out and in of hospitals for the reason that assault at a marketing campaign occasion earlier than Brazil’s 2018 presidential election. The conservative chief underwent a number of surgical procedures throughout his presidency from 2019-2022.
“After so many comparable episodes over the previous few years, I had gotten used to the ache and discomfort. However this time, even the medical doctors had been stunned,” he stated in a social media put up Saturday, including {that a} longtime doctor instructed him it was “probably the most critical case for the reason that assault.”
Bolsonaro additionally stated he would seemingly endure one other surgical procedure. Earlier on Saturday, medical doctors at Rio Grande Hospital within the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte instructed journalists he was steady and never in want of emergency surgical procedure, stated additional procedures would depend upon his restoration.
Medical doctors additionally that the switch to Brasilia was requested by his household and would occur Saturday afternoon.
The far-right chief was admitted to a hospital in Santa Cruz, a small metropolis in Rio Grande do Norte, and later transferred to a hospital within the state’s capital, Natal. Bolsonaro was set to start out a visit throughout the area to advertise his social gathering’s right-wing agenda, eyeing subsequent yr’s presidential election, although he himself is barred from operating. The area historically has been a political bastion of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
