Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was taken to hospital on Monday with suspected new bowel obstruction. The 66-year-old felt an “abdominal discomfort” while on vacation, the government said. According to a report by the news portal g1, he was then flown from his vacation home on the coast in the south of the country to a clinic in São Paulo. According to the government announcement, the president is doing fine. Further information should only be given after the investigations.
The right-wing populist politician had already been diagnosed with an intestinal obstruction in July. Bolsonaro was then treated for several days in a clinic in São Paulo. His doctor Antônio Luiz Macedo broke off his vacation in the Bahamas because of the new suspicion in order to be able to take care of Bolsonaro, as reported by g1. Macedo operated on the politician after a knife attack in the 2018 election campaign and has looked after him ever since.
At an election campaign event in September 2018, a mentally confused man stabbed Bolsonaro and seriously injured him in the stomach. The ex-military then continued the election campaign from the hospital. He was elected president the following month. Bolsonaro had to undergo several operations, even after he took office in early 2019. Among other things, his intestinal tract had to be restored. (SDA)