Jair Bolsonaro transferred to São Paulo for possible emergency surgery | President of Brazil suffers from “intestinal obstruction” and could undergo “emergency surgery”

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suffers from a “bowel obstruction” for which he was transferred to a São Paulo hospital to determine if he should undergo emergency surgery. This was reported by the presidency on Wednesday after Bolsonaro was admitted to Brasilia earlier in the day with persistent hiccups which caused him abdominal pain. His first transfer to the army hospital was defined by Dr. Antonio Macedo, responsible for the five operations carried out on the president after the attack during which he received a knife in the stomach during the 2018 presidential campaign. , Bolsonaro tweeted an image of himself with the message: “We will be back soon, God willing. Brazil is ours!”

“Dr Antonio Macedo found a bowel obstruction and decided to take her to San Pablo, where will do additional tests to determine whether or not emergency surgery is necessary“, indicated the secretary of communication of the Palace of Planalto. The place chosen for the transfer was the Vila Nova Star hospital in the district of Vila Nova Conceição, in the southern zone of São Paulo.

The presidency initially reported that Bolsonaro would undergo examinations in Brasilia and remain “under observation for between 24 and 48 hours, not necessarily inside the hospital”. For its part Alexandre garcia, Bolsonarist journalist for CNN Brazil and former spokesman for military dictator Joao Baptista Figueiredo, said that the president “felt a lot of pain at four in the morning and the first lady, Michelle, called the doctors.”

The 66-year-old president was examined by Dr Macedo after being admitted to the armed forces hospital on Wednesday morning to undergo “tests and investigate the cause of the hiccups” which have afflicted him for more than ten days. Since last week, Bolsonaro has publicly complained of persistent hiccups after undergoing dental implant treatment.

“People, I’m speechless. If I start talking a lot, the hiccups come back … It’s back.”he said on Tuesday, looking tired, in front of a group of supporters outside Alvorada Palace, his official residence in Brasilia.

The senator Flavio Bolsonaro He told reporters on Wednesday that he perceived his father’s difficulty speaking and attributed the condition to stress. “We noticed his difficulty speaking, to finish a speech. He has a very intense schedule.”said Flavio, who added that “he will be under medical supervision very soon, he will be one hundred percent.”

If the need for surgery is confirmed, it would be the sixth the president has had since being stabbed in the intestine during his presidential campaign in September 2018, at a rally in the town of Juiz de Fora, in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.

Adelio Bispo, the perpetrator of the attack and former affiliate of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL), He was diagnosed with a delusional disorder and declared unassailable by the courts. He is currently being held in the psychiatric unit of a maximum security prison in Brazil.

However, Bolsonaro insists that the assassination attempt was planned and had political overtones. “One more challenge, consequence of the assassination attempt promoted by a former member of the PSOL, left arm of the PT, prevent the victory of millions of Brazilians who wanted changes for Brazil. A cruel attack not only against me, but against our democracy, ”Bolsonaro wrote on Wednesday since his hospitalization in Brasilia.

In a series of tweets, the far-right president thanked messages of support received in recent hours, stressing that “this is what motivates us to move forward and face whatever it takes to get out of the Brazil from the clutches of corruption, values ​​invested and organized crime ”.

In the past three years, Bolsonaro has undergone six surgeries, four of them following the attack he suffered in 2018.. In September last year, the president of Brazil underwent surgery in São Paulo to remove a kidney stone.

Last July, the far-right leader, one of the leaders most skeptical of the severity of the pandemic, tested positive for covid-19 and he spent twenty days isolated in the Palacio de la Alvorada until he conquered the disease. Exactly A Senate Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (ICC) analyzes the degree of responsibility of the Executive headed by Bolsonaro in managing the pandemic, which has so far claimed more than 535,000 deaths and 19.7 million confirmed cases in the country.

Bolsonaro was due to meet with the presidents of the Supreme Court and Congress on Wednesday, as part of the tension opened up by the president after threatening not to recognize the result of the 2022 elections, which polls show him as the loser to former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The meeting, according to local media, aimed to smooth out the rough edges between the three powers, after Bolsonaro to attack electronic voting system and defend the printed vote for future presidential elections in which he will seek re-election. The president also goes through the highest disapproval rates in his administration.