Bolsonaro was hospitalized for the last time last November. (AFP file)
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized this Monday for a partial intestinal obstruction that in principle does not require an intervention, his doctor reported.
“The medical picture he presents is intestinal subocclusion, and surgery should probably not be necessary,” explained his surgeon, Antonio Luiz Macedo.according to the ANSA news agency.
The ex-president’s diagnosis came a few hours after first the United States media and then his wife realized that he had been admitted to a health center.
Michelle Bolsonaro published on the Instagram network that the former president is “under observation in the hospital” due to “aftermath of the stab wound” he suffered in 2018 and that led him to undergo subsequent interventions.
The information came out a day after thousands of his sympathizers invaded the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia.
The leader was subjected to surgical interventions on several occasions as a result of being stabbed by a fan in 2018, when he was campaigning to win the presidency of Brazil.
The last hospitalization for this issue was in November of last year.
Bolsonaro is admitted to AdventHealth Celebration, a 220-bed hospital in the Orlando regionin Florida, according to columnist Lauro Jardim, from the newspaper O Globo.
The former president has been in the United States since December 31, the day before the inauguration of his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to whom he was to hand over the presidential sash upon taking office on the first day of this year.
Macedo explained that “clinical treatment should resolve” this new ailment of Bolsonaro, “like when he was hospitalized in São Paulo.” “It’s not a serious situation,” he added.
Clinicians generally define subocclusion as a temporary, partial intestinal obstruction that causes acute abdominal symptoms, mainly after heavy meals with heavy food and poor hydration.
Bolsonaro’s hospitalization comes a day after terrorist acts devastated the buildings of the Planalto, the Federal Supreme Court (STF, supreme court) and Congress, forcing him to distance himself from his followers.
“Peaceful demonstrations, in the form of law, are part of democracy. However, depredations and invasions of public buildings such as those that occurred today, as well as those practiced by the left in 2013 and 2017, escape the rule,” The president wrote yesterday on his Twitter account.
– Peaceful demonstrations, in the form of the law, are part of democracy. However, depredations and invasions of public buildings as occurred today, as well as those practiced by the left in 2013 and 2017, escape the rule.
— Jair M. Bolsonaro 2️⃣2️⃣ (@jairbolsonaro) January 9, 2023
The hospital where Bolsonaro would be hospitalized.
