Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was hospitalized with an intestinal obstruction, has improved, according to official reports. Bolsonaro is developing in a satisfactory way, according to a first statement from the press office of the Presidential Office on Thursday.
The gastric tube had been removed from him and the start of nutrition was planned for the next day, it said in a second message. However, the five-person medical team did not make a prognosis for discharge from the Vila Nova Star Hospital in the metropolis of São Paulo in both communications.
There is no need for an operation, said the doctor Antônio Macedo in a television interview. “An operation is basically ruled out because the intestine has started to function and has become more supple,” said Macedo, “RedeTV!”.
He spoke at the side of Bolsonaro, who appeared live from the hospital bed. The president is doing better, wrote his son Flavio Bolsonaro on Twitter. “If he continues like this, he won’t need an operation.”
Bolsonaro (66) was brought to São Paulo from the capital Brasília on Wednesday after complaining of persistent hiccups.
The doctor, who also operated on Bolsonaro after the knife attack in 2018, had found an intestinal obstruction and had the president brought to São Paulo. Further examinations were carried out there to determine whether emergency surgery was necessary.
Both Macedo and Bolsonaro made a connection on television that the then-candidate was badly injured with a knife in the stomach area by an assassin during the 2018 election campaign to explain the health problem that led to the hospitalization.
“That blocked area on the left is the result of adhesions from all of these complications he’s had,” said the doctor. Bolsonaro, who has already been operated on four times, has tried to politicize his health problem by reminding people on social media that the assassin was a member of the Party for Socialism and Freedom (PSOL).
Together with the PT Workers’ Party of ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the PSOL represents an important part of the opposition. The head of state was recently under pressure from a parliamentary committee of inquiry into his corona policy and corruption allegations in connection with the ordering of vaccines. According to the polling institute Datafolha, his government’s rejection reached 51 percent – the worst value since the beginning of the term of office in 2019. (dpa)
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