Brazil’s still president, Jair Bolsonaro, was admitted Thursday night to the Armed Forces Hospital in Brasilia for severe abdominal pain, the area where he received a stab wound during his 2018 campaign and which has caused him to undergo surgery four times since then.
The new diagnosis is a hernia in the scar left by the surgery for that attack. Already in 2019 he had to be operated again in this area due to complications. According to the report provided by the Institutional Security Cabinet, he does not plan to undergo a new operation, although he will remain under observation, reports the newspaper ‘Estadao’.
The last time Bolsonaro had to be hospitalized was in January of this year. On that occasion he spent two nights in a hospital in Sao Paulo being treated for an intestinal obstruction.
Bolsonaro’s health condition seems to have worsened in the last days, once the reasons for which the still president of Brazil would have been confined in the Alvorada Palace coinciding with his defeat in the elections of last October 30 against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have been made known.
This week, Vice-President Hamilton Mourao announced that Bolsonaro is convalescing from an infection in one of his legs that prevents him from wearing pants. According to his ‘number two’, he has erysipelas, a skin disease caused by a bacterium that enters the organism through small, poorly healed wounds.
However, the ailment is said to have subsided and next week he could resume his activities. For the moment, Bolsonaro has barely left the official residence on a couple of occasions and has limited his presence in social networks to which he used to go at least once a week to give his particular informative report.
The last time he was seen on these platforms was on November 2, to ask his followers to cease the protests and blockades they had imposed on several highways due to Lula’s victory.
