former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro According to the newspaper O Globo, he had to be taken to a hospital in Orlando, Florida, because of severe abdominal pain and was confirmed by the Portal news agency.
A few hours later, Bolsonaro posted a photo on his Twitter account accompanied by a text: “After being stabbed in Juiz de Fora/MG I underwent 5 surgeries. Since the last one I’ve had 2 adhesions that led me to other medical procedures. Yesterday I had new adhesions and was discharged from the hospital in Orlando/USA. Thank you for your prayers and messages for a speedy recovery.
Since an operation he underwent afterwards the stab wound he sustained in 2018It’s not the first time Bolsonaro has been hospitalized with abdominal pain. The last hospitalization was in November when he was admitted to the military hospital in Brasilia.
Jair Bolsonaro (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, file)
His wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, reached out to the networks to clarify details of the hospitalization: “Dear Sir/Madam, I have come to inform you that my husband Jair Bolsonaro is under hospitalization for abdominal discomfort resulting from the aftermath of the stab wound, which he inflicted on a former member of PSOL in 2018”.
“We pray for his health and for Brazil. God bless us,” he added.
Since taking office in 2019, he has suffered from various health problems, mainly related to the stab wound he received during a campaign rally.
A timeline of your health issues:
– September 6, 2018: a month before the first round of the presidential elections, Bolsonaro is stabbed in the stomach in the middle of the crowd during a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas Gerais (southeast of Brazil). His attacker, a man with mental health problems, pierces his intestines several times, causing him to lose more than two liters (40%) of blood. He will receive urgent surgery at a local hospital before being transferred to the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo.
-12. Sept 2018: Bolsonaro is operated on again for adhesions in the small intestine. They fix one too fistula in a seam from the first operation.
-29. September 2018: 22 days after the attack and a week before the elections, Bolsonaro leaves the hospital. He does not take part in television debates with other candidates.
Jair Bolsonaro at the Vila Nova Star Hospital in Sao Paulo on July 16, 2021 (@jairmessiasbolsonaro via Portal)
-28 January 2019: Almost a month after his inauguration as president, he underwent another operation to remove his colostomy bag which he must have used after the attack. The operation was longer (seven hours) and more complex than expected due to numerous intestinal adhesions.
-8th. September 2019: new hospitalization and fourth operation, this time to correct a abdominal fracture on the scar from the previous operation.
-23. December 2019: Bolsonaro spends the night in a hospital in Brasilia after suffering an illness “a fall in the bathroom”.
-6. July 2020: the then President is diagnosed COVID-19. He shows mild symptoms and claims to “be better” after taking it. Hydroxychloroquinean antimalarial drug that has proven ineffective against the new coronavirus.
Bolsonaro, who has always minimized the scope of the pandemic, is recovering after 19 days of isolation at the Brasilia headquarters and tests negative on July 25. He still claims that to this day They have not been vaccinated against COVID.
-25. September 2020: Bolsonaro submits Surgery to remove a kidney stone.
-14. July 2021: hospitalized for treatment a intestinal obstruction and a hiccup crisis that lasted ten days. Doctors opt for “conservative treatment” without surgery.
-3. January 2022: While on vacation in Santa Catarina state (south), Bolsonaro needs to be transferred and urgently admitted to a new hospital in Sao Paulo intestinal obstruction and tests for a “possible surgery” are being conducted.
-17 November 2022: was admitted Brasilia Armed Forces Hospital for a strong stomach painarea where he received the prick
(With information from AFP)
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Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the army to disband the “Bolsonarista camps” within 24 hours. Lula returned to Brasilia and visited the facilities raided by the Bolsonaristas. Jair Bolsonaro was taken to a hospital in Brasilia because of severe abdominal pain