Bolsonaro has been in a surgical center for over eight hours.

SÃO PAULO – President Jair
Bolsonaro
will undergo surgery Monday morning in São Paulo to restore intestinal transit and remove the colostomy bag implanted since the September attack of last year during the election campaign. He was taken to the operating room at 6:30. .

Bolsonaro was hospitalized Sunday morning at Israelita Albert Einstein Hospital, for which he had already been hospitalized after being stabbed in Juiz de Fora (MG).

Vice President Hamilton Mourão took the presidency this morning. He will act as acting president for 48 hours. Bolsonaro intends to resume the position and send him to the hospital, while he was still hospitalized.

Recovery should take place within 10 days. During this period, a temporary office will be set up at Albert Einstein Hospital for the President to send with the Ministers.

According to a medical report released late Sunday afternoon, Bolsonaro was subjected to preoperative clinical badessment, laboratory tests, and imaging as soon as he was admitted to hospital. The results were normal, according to the document signed by the surgeon Antônio Luiz Macedo, cardiologist Leandro Echenique and Miguel Cendoroglo, general manager of Einstein.

How will the procedure

Surgery consist of removing the colostomy bag

Surgeons put back in the abdomen the part of the intestine that was connected to the bag of collection feces.

An incision is made. in the same place as the first surgery to open the abdomen

The two parts of the bowel separated are sewn on the back and the abdomen is closed

According to doctors, this type of Intervention requires at least two weeks of

The surgery involves removing the pocket

from the colostomy

An incision is made at the same place as the first surgery to open the abdomen.

Surgeons put back into the abdomen the part of the intestine that

The two parts of the bowel that were separated are sewn back and the abdomen is closed [19659017] According to the doctors, this type of surgery requires at least two weeks of

The spokesman of the president, Otávio do Rêgo Barros, declared that the president was "very excited" and "satisfied with the results of the program. ;examination". This is the third surgery the president has undergone since September.

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Doctors will reconstruct the stretching of the bowel broken by the dagger. For this, they will use surgical sutures or staplers to reconnect the separated parts of the large intestine. Today's operation was scheduled to take place in December, before the inauguration, but was postponed due to an infection.

The entourage accompanying the president includes the First Lady, Michelle Bolsonaro, head of the Office of Institutional Security, Augusto Heleno Ribeiro, spokesperson and Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the president and deputy elected by São Paulo.

On Twitter, Interim President, Hamilton Mourão, called for unity and prayer for the success of the operation and the total recovery of Jair Bolsonaro.