The former president () felt severe abdominal pain on Friday (11), was hurriedly treated in the morning in a municipal hospital in Rio Grande do Norte and was transferred from a helicopter to a private unit in Natal.
According to the Senate opposition leader, Rogério Marinho (PL-RN), the pains are related to the stab he took during the 2018 campaign and resulted in a series of surgeries since then.
By note, Governor Fatima Bezerra (PT) said she determined “full commitment and measures of RN health and public safety teams in assisting former President Jair Bolsonaro.”
Bolsonaro is in Rio Grande do Norte on his first agenda of Rota 22, an initiative of his party to run the country with the former president, who is ineligible until 2030 and has those involved in the coup attacks of January 8, 2023.
After being attended at the Santa Cruz Regional Hospital, Bolsonaro left the city led by a Samu ambulance to a municipal soccer field, from where the aircraft of the Public Security Bureau departed towards the state capital. After landing at Walfredo Gurgel State Hospital, Bolsonaro was taken in an ambulance to the private Rio Grande Hospital in Natal.
Previously, Bolsonaro arrived at Natal at dawn on Friday, where he was welcomed by supporters. He should be at 11am in Acari, then he would go to Oiticica at 13h, and finish in an act in Pau dos Ferros at 18h. The former president’s first act was in Bom Jesus with supporters. A video was released by his advice, around 8:30 am.
Former Tourism Minister Gilson Machado, who accompanies Bolsonaro in Rio Grande do Norte, said he was stabilized and felt pain at night at the hotel where he was staying in Natal.
“He spent all nightless night. At 5am, he [Bolsonaro] He called me in the room. I took the phone and called the doctor [Antônio] Macedo [médico que cuida do ex-presidente]. He asked me to alert if he had gases, [verificar] His peristalsis, “said Gilson.
“I passed Doctor Macedo [as informações]because he asked me, and [o médico] asked to apply the medicine to it. He [Bolsonaro] It was medicated, is stabilized, returning to Natal and will be attended by doctors under the supervision of Doctor Macedo, “he added.
An ally said Bolsonaro was cold and shouted in pain when he was rescued.
By note, the Bolsonaro party PL said that “he is deeply dismayed with the event” and “keeps his prayers by the full recovery of the [ex-]Bolsonaro President “.
Several supporters went to the stadium to see the helicopter that transported him to Natal.
The former president has had five surgeries since receiving the stabbed at the abdomen in 2018. The last one occurred in 2023, when he was operated to correct hiatus hernia and septum deviation at Vila Nova Star hospital in the south of São Paulo.
Earlier that year, when he was still in Orlando (USA), where it was when he left the country not to pass the presidential range to Lula (PT), Bolsonaro was also hospitalized with abdominal pain, but did not even perform surgery, which only occurred months later.
Prior to that, the procedures took place during their mandate as President of the Republic. In 2022, he was hospitalized for three days with intestinal obstruction caused by one.
