This is the area where he was stabbed during a rally in 2018 and required surgery up to four times
Brazil’s outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro, was admitted to the Armed Forces Hospital in Brasilia on Thursday night for severe abdominal pain, an area where he was stabbed during his 2018 campaign and which has left him stranded on four occasions since then.
The new diagnosis is a hernia in the scar left by surgery for that attack. Already in 2019, he had to undergo another operation in this area due to complications. According to the report of the Institutional Security Cabinet, he does not intend to undergo another operation, although he will remain under observation, the newspaper ‘Estadao’ reports.
The last time Bolsonaro had to be admitted was in January of this year. On that occasion, he spent two nights in a hospital in Sao Paulo, where he was treated for an intestinal obstruction.
Bolsonaro’s health seems to have deteriorated in recent days, once the reasons why Brazil’s still-president is said to have secluded himself in the Palacio de la Alvorada coincided with his defeat in last October’s elections against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva .
This week, Vice President Hamilton Mourao announced that Bolsonaro is recovering from an infection in one of his legs that has left him unable to wear pants. According to his ‘number two’, he has erysipelas, a skin disease caused by a bacteria that enters the body through small, poorly healed wounds.
However, the ailment would have disappeared and he would be able to resume his activities next week. At the moment, Bolsonaro has barely left the official residence a few times and has limited his presence on social networks, where he used to go at least once a week to give his specific informational role.
The last time he was seen on these platforms was on November 2 asking his followers to stop the protests and the blockades they had imposed on several highways because of Lula’s victory.
Source: La Verdad
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