São Paulo – Former’s Brazilian President, President Jea Bolsonaro, was transferred to the airplane from northeastern Brazil to the capital, Brasilia, after being hospitalized a day ago with abdominal pain.
Bolsonaro was hospitalized Friday morning while traveling through northeastern Brazil. The pain was caused by an obstruction of the intestine and was linked to the long-term effects of a stabbing in the abdomen in September 2018, his doctors said.
Bolsonaro has been in and out of hospitals since the attacks at a campaign event before Brazil’s 2018 presidential election. The Conservative leader underwent several surgeries during the presidency between 2019 and 2022.
“After so many similar episodes over the past few years, I was used to pain and discomfort. But even the doctors were surprised this time,” he said in a social media post on Saturday, adding that the longtime doctor said “it was the most serious case since the attack.”
Bolsonaro also said he would probably undergo another operation. Earlier on Saturday, doctors at Rio Grande Hospital in the northeastern part of Rio Grande Donorte told journalists he was stable and did not require emergency surgery, and further procedures would depend on his recovery.
The doctors also said that a transfer to Brasilia would occur on Saturday afternoon, as his family requested.
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The conservative leader was admitted to a hospital in Santa Cruz, a small city in Rio Grande Do Norte, and was later transferred to a hospital in Natal, the provincial capital. Bolsonaro was scheduled to travel the region to promote his party’s right-wing agenda, focusing on next year’s presidential election, despite being banned from running. The area has traditionally been the political fortress of President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.
