Beginning of the year in the emergency department for the Brazilian president. This Monday morning at dawn, Jair Bolsonaro, 66, was urgently hospitalized in São Paulo because of a probable new intestinal obstruction, interrupting his family and sunny vacation in the south of the country, announced the Brazilian media such as TV Globo . The presidency confirmed this information immediately. Jair Bolsonaro is currently hospitalized for “Various examinations” following “Abdominal pain”, but he “Is fine and is being treated”, continues the brief official statement, pending the publication of a medical bulletin. It is not yet clear whether he needs to be operated on.
The hospital for its part declared that the Brazilian head of state was “In stable condition” and that he had been admitted for suspicion “Intestinal sub-occlusive”. Antonio Luiz Macedo, the surgeon who has already operated on the President of the abdomen, told the UOL news site that Jair Bolsonaro would undergo various examinations, including a tomography, because of this probable intestinal obstruction.
Not the first hospitalization
This is not the first time that the Brazilian head of state has been hospitalized urgently. Since an assassination attempt with a knife in September 2018, during the presidential campaign, passing very close to death, Jair Bolsonaro has undergone at least four surgeries on the digestive system, due to an abdominal problem that can lead to an obstruction. intestinal. The far-right politician, in office since 2019, has already been treated for the same problem in July 2021, at the Vila Nova Star in São Paulo.
This Monday, Jair Bolsonaro was therefore forced to interrupt his controversial vacation in the state of Santa Catarina, which began on December 27. Until now, the statesman had refused to cut short his escapade to the sea to go to the state of Bahia, stricken by deadly floods at the end of the year and affecting more than 470,000 Brazilians . The images of Jair Bolsonaro taking a breath of fresh air on the beach, strolling in an amusement park, or braving the waves of the Atlantic Ocean aboard his jet-ski had created a heated controversy in Brazil.