Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro is better, but his release from hospital is still not planned

His health is improving hour by hour. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has recovered from intestinal obstruction for which he had to be hospitalized urgently in Sao Paulo (south-eastern Brazil). According to the latest bulletin published by the Vila Nova Star Hospital, the health of the Head of State “has evolved with good acceptance of the liquid diet that was offered to him during the day, which led to the withdrawal of the nasolabial tube. -gastric ”.

“The patient’s digestive tract is showing signs of recovery. No discharge authorization is planned for the moment ”, we can also read in the hospital bulletin.

This establishment had announced, this Tuesday morning in a press release, that the president’s “subocclusive intestinal state” – a partial obstruction of the transit – “has been resolved” and that “a surgical intervention is not necessary”. The decision not to operate was taken by surgeon Antonio Luiz Macedo, who interrupted his vacation in the Bahamas to examine the president at dawn on Tuesday.

Nine months before the presidential election, the 66-year-old head of state had to leave his vacation spot in the southern and seaside state of Santa Catarina overnight from Sunday to Monday to be transported to Sao Paulo and admitted at the Vila Nova Star Hospital.

“Physical and psychological” consequences

Photos posted on social media to Jair Bolsonaro and his wife Michelle’s accounts show Dr Macedo, who has operated on the president in the past, giving him an abdominal palpation. Among the keywords: “#faith # Jesus # president”. In another photo, Bolsonaro is seen walking through the halls of the hospital, in black Bermuda shorts, and still equipped with a gastric tube and an intravenous drip.

Since the stabbing attack of which he was the victim in September 2018, in the midst of the presidential election campaign, Jair Bolsonaro has suffered a succession of abdominal alerts. Stabbed in the intestine during a walkregarding, he narrowly escaped death. The following-effects of this attack, which earned him four operations on his abdomen, have punctuated his mandate.

A digestive system surgeon, quoted this Tuesday by the daily O Globo, estimated that Jair Bolsonaro, who wants to run for president in October, would probably be handicapped all his life by intestinal problems. One of his sons, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, lamented in an interview with the international channel CNN the lifelong consequences of the stabbing on his father. The shock is “not only physical, but also psychological. He has to give up a lot of things, he has a permanent dietary restriction, he has to maintain a certain routine, ”he said.

Two tweets were published on the official account of the president, regarding the approval of a tax abatement for the importation of scientific material, a way of showing that he remains in control of the country despite his hospitalization.