Jair Bolsonaro is evolving “satisfactorily” and could be sacked “in the coming days”

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, hospitalized since Wednesday for an intestinal obstruction, “continues to evolve satisfactorily” and could be released “in the next few days”, reported his doctors on Saturday.

“During the day, you will be offered a creamy diet without fermentation. If you have a good acceptance, the medical team will decide on the discharge in the next few days “, indicates the bulletin published by the private hospital Vila Nova Star.

Bolsonaro, 66, was urgently hospitalized in Brasilia on Wednesday to investigate the causes of severe abdominal pain and persistent hiccups, which lasted for more than ten days. Later, his doctors decided to transfer him to Sao Paulo for further evaluations.

After the stab wounds he received in the abdomen during his presidential campaign in 2018, Bolsonaro underwent four abdominal surgeries that created a picture of his health more vulnerable to bowel adhesions., explained the head of the medical team, the surgeon Antonio Macedo, in an interview with the newspaper or balloon.

Despite his hospitalization, Bolsonaro continues to command the Executive and very active on social networks, posting photos and messages in which, for example, this Saturday he attacked the former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, his main rival and favorite for the 2022 elections.

“Do not give up what is right and necessary to do,” Bolsonaro wrote, retweeting a video with footage of Lula with late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, phrases criticizing the “dictator communist system” and scenes from recent protests in Cuba against the government marked by Miguel Díaz-Canel when we have the information.

“If today’s generations are already paying a high price (…) imagine those who will come,” added Bolsonaro, who released a video posted by magnate Luciano Hang, an active supporter of his government.

The sovereign’s loss of health comes amid erosion of his popularity and political tensions, with suspicions of corruption in contracts negotiated by his government to buy vaccines to fight the coronavirus pandemic, which has already killed more than 540,000 in Brazil.

With information from AFP

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