They successfully operate Bolsonaro

RIO DE JANEIRO.- The Brazilian President,

Jair Bolsonaro,

He was successfully operated today to remove the colostomy bag that he had used since a knife attack during the election campaign.
Nine hours after the president was taken to the operating theater of Albert Einstein Hospital in San Pablo, Plbadto Palace announced that, despite delays, the procedure was over.

"The intervention of President Jair Bolsonaro has been completed and the medical bulletin will be released as soon as it has been cleared by the medical team," said the presidency press service, adding that he would later give a press conference.

Bolsonaro, 63, was taken from his room at 6:30 in the morning and the surgeon Antonio Luiz Macedo had indicated that the operation was to last between three and four hours. Already in the middle of the afternoon and in the absence of official news, a certain discomfort was beginning to develop among the Brazilians.

"That's fine, after the operation, he has to stand still before returning to his room," said one of the president's sons, MP Eduardo Bolsonaro, who was accompanying his father on his Twitter account. the hospital with the first lady, Michelle and other relatives.

"Everything is fine, but it is a delicate process and the operation started with a little delay," General Augusto Heleno, Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet, told reporters, the only representative from the government to be equally responsible. the clinic.

Bolsonaro must remain hospitalized for ten days, but decides to transfer his executive duties to Vice President Hamilton Mourão only during the first 48 hours. then, his idea is to return to work from the same hospital, where a special room has been set up to receive his ministers.

The purpose of this operation, scheduled and postponed twice, was to reestablish the intestinal flow of the president, who, on September 6, had his stomach punctured during an attack during a street demonstration in Juiz de Juiz. Fora, in Minas Gerais. The then candidate, the Social-Liberal Party (PSL), was stabbed by Adelio Bispo de Oliveira, who was arrested and then declared that he had acted "on God's orders". The investigation into the case, in charge of the federal prosecutor's office, is still going on to determine the aggressor's mental health, to clarify who has paid for his defense, and whether a criminal organization or a political group was at the origin of the attack. The results should be ready in the next three months.

After the attack, Bolsonaro was treated at the Santa Casa de la Misericordia in Juiz de Fora, where he was operated for the first time. The knife injured a vein that caused severe bleeding and damage to the large and small intestines. He was therefore placed in a colostomy bag to collect and retrieve his excrement.

The next day he was transferred to Paulista Albert Einstein Hospital. On September 12, he underwent a second emergency surgery to unlock adhesion to the walls of the intestine. On September 29, after 23 days of hospitalization, he was released.

Due to his state of health, Bolsonaro was no longer participating in televised debates with other presidential candidates and his popularity increased. He continued to campaign from his home in Rio de Janeiro via social media and finally won the elections in October.