Â66-year-old Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was urgently hospitalized in a private hospital in São Paulo early in the morning of Monday, January 3. According to local media, such as TV Globo, a probable new intestinal obstruction is the cause.
Since an attempted murder with a knife in September 2018, Mr. Bolsonaro has undergone numerous operations on his abdomen for adhesions, and was treated for the same problem in July 2021, in the private hospital of Vila Nova Star, where he was again on Monday.
Questioned by AFP, the presidency has neither confirmed nor denied the information given by the country’s mainstream media. Last July, the far-right head of state in office since 2019 was hospitalized for four days for an occlusion in Vila Nova Star, where he was transferred after an emergency admission to Brasilia due to severe abdominal pain. . Since being stabbed in the intestine in September 2018, while campaigning for the presidential election, apparently by an imbalance, Mr. Bolsonaro has undergone at least four surgical operations on the digestive system.
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