SAO PAULO (AP) — 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 informed journalists.
Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized Friday morning with stomach ache whereas touring in northeastern Brazil. The ache was attributable to a bowel obstruction and was associated to long-term results of being stabbed within the stomach in September 2018, his medical doctors mentioned.
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 similar episodes over the past few years, I had gotten used to the pain and discomfort. But this time, even the doctors were surprised,” he mentioned in a social media publish Saturday, including {that a} longtime doctor informed him it was “the most serious case since the attack.”
Bolsonaro additionally mentioned 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 informed journalists he was steady and never in want of emergency surgical procedure, mentioned 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 get together’s right-wing agenda, eyeing subsequent 12 months’s presidential election, although he himself is barred from working. The area historically has been a political bastion of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Initially Printed: April 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM PDT
