Bolsonaro is progressing from bowel obstruction, son said

The ultra-conservative president was transferred from Brasilia to Vila Nova Star Hospital, in São Paulo, Wednesday evening. His condition is “stable” and doctors have ruled out surgery for the moment.

Instead, Bolsonaro will undergo conservative clinical treatment, which includes medication and hydration, the presidency reported.

The president is accompanied by his personal physician, the surgeon Antonio Luiz de Macedo – who operated on him in 2018 from the stabbing he suffered during the election campaign – and will participate in the studies this Thursday, O Globo reported.

He added that he detected the intestinal obstruction after Bolsonaro complained for more than ten days of persistent discomfort.

Specialists consulted by the Brazilian media estimated that intestinal obstruction could be a consequence of the six operations to which the president has been subjected since his stabbing.

Problems like this can be solved by taking medication or requiring surgery when the obstruction is more severe. Also according to the doctors, in general, these operations are not considered risky, but it all depends on the clinical condition of the patient, who can stay up to ten days in the hospital, recovering, O Globo reported.

Bolsonaro, 66, was admitted in the morning to the armed forces hospital to “investigate the cause of the hiccups” which has afflicted him for more than ten days, according to another official note.

Since last week he complained of a persistent hiccups, after undergoing dental implant treatment.

“People, I am speechless. If I start to talk a lot, the hiccup attack returns. It has returned,” he said on Tuesday, looking tired, in front of a group of supporters outside the palace. ‘Alvorada, his official residence.

Bolsonaro was admitted to an intensive care unit in Brasilia in the morning and “he was intubated as a precaution,” Jovem Pan, the senator and Bolsonaro’s son, told radio. Flavio Bolsonaro.