After his operation, Jair Bolsonaro suffered a relapse and is interned

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has returned to a semi-intensive care unit after beginning antibiotic treatment in the face of an apparent infection contracted during the convalescence of the third operation following the blows he received. last year. This motivated the dismissal of his sick leave to next week.

According to the spokesman of the Presidency, Otavio do Rego Barros, the president Monday presented a "temperature rise" and a "modification" of some of his clinical badyzes, indicating an increase in the number of leukocytes, were therefore administered by the doctors. antibiotics "broad spectrum" to "attack any type of infection".

The doctors found liquid in the area where the president's colostomy bag had been removed.

The liquid was drained. And he would have no more fever or pain, but he will not be able to leave the hospital until Monday, said Do Rego.

"A collection of fluid was identified next to the bowel in the area of ​​the old colostomy. (Bolsonaro) was punctured" and "remains drained on the spot," explained in turn the medical team.

According to this section, Bolsonaro, who took power on 1 January, was "painless, feverless, fasting, oral nasogastric and exclusive parenteral nutrition".

In addition, the president "already presents the movements of the intestines", had "two episodes of evacuation" and continues to perform breathing exercises and muscle strengthening.

Despite the relapse of the head of state, Rego Barros said that Bolsonaro Box was "in the forecast" by the medical staff, believing that he had undergone three surgeries in less than four months. "Two of them are urgent".

He added that "there is no negative aspect" regarding the operation to which the president was submitted last Monday, when doctors withdrew the colostomy bag.

Bolsonaro is medicated "for a possible infectious process". He will therefore remain in the Albert Einstein hospital in San Pablo for at least another seven days, the spokesman said.

"On Wednesday, it will not be the day of the release of our president, even if he has entered a phase in which they have been given antibiotics for at least seven days," he said. of a press conference.

Bolsonaro was subjected to a third operation a week ago as a result of the attack suffered last September, explaining that the president had also suffered a puncture after detecting the presence of liquid near the aircraft. 39; intestine.

According to his spokesman, Bolsonaro is in "absolute rest", he will not have official commitments in the next two days and visits "are reserved for relatives and close relatives".

"It's a man who is fighting for his life to run the country," concluded the spokesman.

Source: Clarín