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Monday, September 30
President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, receives medical discharge after four days in hospital for intestinal obstruction
The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro , received the medical discharge this Sunday after spending four days admitted to a hospital in Sao Paulo to treat an intestinal obstruction, according to medical sources.
The president, of 66 years, he was admitted to the Vila Nova hospital Star of the capital of São Paulo, last Wednesday, after being transferred from a medical center in Brasilia, where he was hospitalized for presenting severe abdominal pain and an attack of hiccups.
The medical team came to consider the possibility of performing an emergency surgical intervention to treat the “intestinal subocclusion” that the head of state undertook, but they decided to bet on a “conservative treatment” that gave good results.
After evolving form “Satisfactory”, Bolsonaro was discharged this Sunday around 9: 30 local time (12: 30 GMT), according to the latest bulletin released by the private hospital, and must return to the federal capital this Sunday.
” He (Bolsonaro) will continue with outpatient accompaniment by the assistant medical team, ”the report stressed, although it did not report whether the obstruction was fully repaired.
Gastroenterologist Antonio Macedo explained to journalists that discharge was possible because the president’s digestive system is working regularly , but warned that Bolsonaro “will have to calmly resume his work routine.”
The leader of the Brazilian extreme right left the hospital walking and accompanied of some allies.
“I will be back to the Presidency tomorrow (Monday),” he assured in statements to journalists.
“I had to go on a diet, I did what was necessary. I wanted to leave from day one, but they wouldn’t let me. I hope that in about ten days I can already be eating a rib steak ”, he added.
– From volta to Brasília.
– Obrigado with prayers and votes of full recovery. pic.twitter.com/tFbB7MpFEf– Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) July 30, 2021
Bolsonaro also criticized the commission installed in the Senate that investigates possible omissions of the Government in the conduct of the coronavirus pandemic and once again defended his former Minister of Health, General Eduardo Pazuello , whose management was questioned by the investigative committee.
“ Do you want to overthrow the Government? I already said that only God removes me from the presidential chair “, said the president, who aspires to a second term in the elections that will be held. held in Brazil in 2022, for which former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is emerging as a favorite.
In recent years , Bolsonaro has been subjected to five operations, four of them as a result of the attack he suffered in 1200, when he received a stab in the abdomen while participating in an electoral rally in the town of Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas Gerais (southeast of the country).
The aggressor was arrested immediately after the attack, but was declared unimpeachable, since the judge considered that He was unable to answer for his actions due to his mental problems.
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