Monday, January 03, 2022
Suspected intestinal obstruction
Bolsonaro in hospital for an emergency
Brazilian President Bolsonaro suffered an intestinal obstruction last summer and was treated in a clinic. Now he has to interrupt his vacation and is hospitalized again for a medical emergency – suspicion: a new intestinal obstruction.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been taken to hospital with suspected new bowel obstruction. The 66-year-old felt an “abdominal discomfort” while on vacation, the country’s 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. On recordings of the broadcaster TV Globo you could see Bolsonaro getting out of the presidential plane.
According to the government announcement, the president is doing fine. Further information should only be given after the investigations.
Intestinal obstruction already detected in July
The right-wing populist politician had already been diagnosed with an intestinal obstruction in July 2021. 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, who had treated Bolsonaro on other occasions, told the UOL news portal that the president would undergo several tests, including computed tomography, to examine the possible intestinal obstruction.
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.