The former president () remains stable and will spend the night at the Rio Grande Hospital in Natal, where he is hospitalized with intestinal subocclusion, a partial obstruction of the intestine. There is no forecast of discharge.
According to the medical team, Bolsonaro was able to be transferred to Sao Paulo in an air ICU, but will be in Natal by choice of family and doctors. According to the hospital, the former president is asymptomatic, with no use of painkillers and without surgery forecast.
The information was released by the doctor Luiz Roberto Fonseca, medical director of the hospital, late Friday afternoon. Bolsonaro was transferred on the morning of Friday (11) to the scene, after one and was.
Bolsonaro has a part of partial intestine obstruction, which makes liquids and food from the small intestine to the large intestine difficult, as well as the release of gases and feces. “This is what causes the abdominal distension and the pain he was feeling,” said the doctor.
“The painting inspires care, but does not show signs of greater severe at the moment,” added the medical director.
Bolsonaro “remains hemodynamically stable, in ambient air, without the need for support with vasoactive, asymptomatic and painkiller drugs at the moment”, according to the medical bulletin.
According to the statement, the former president “is using venous antibiotic therapy (antibiotics in the vein) and with open nasogastric probe, remaining in zero diet.” Since it cannot feed for now, Bolsonaro receives total parenteral nutrition, which is a food technique that consists of sending nutrients directly to the bloodstream.
Bolsonaro took exams on Friday afternoon at the health unit. Before, the doctor Luiz Roberto Fonseca said, around 1:30 pm, that there is no need for surgery. The next step, he said, will be the resumption of bowel functions.
“Despite the need to maintain it [no hospital]it is clinically stable and with signs of improving signs and symptoms, “said Fonseca.
“He performed the tomography, which showed signs of intestinal subocclusion, but with no signs of gravity. For now, there is no surgical indication, but it is being evaluated continuously with exams to evaluate the condition,” added the doctor.
A doctor who usually accompanies Bolsonaro’s will go from Sao Paulo to Natal and should reach the Potiguar capital at dawn. A new medical report will be released at 11am this Saturday (12).
In dealing with the relationship of the pains now with stabbed bolsonaro in 2018, Fonseca said that “everything that happens from an abdominal point of view has corroboration with what happened to the past.”
An entire floor of the hospital was reserved for the former president for security reasons.
After having severe abdominal pain, Bolsonaro was hurriedly attended in the morning at the Santa Cruz Regional Hospital and was transferred by helicopter to a private unit in Natal. The aircraft belongs to the Rio Grande do Norte Military Police and was used with the endorsement of Governor Fatima Bezerra (PT), according to the state government.
According to the Senate opposition leader, (PL-RN), the pains are related to the stab he took during the 2018 campaign and resulted in a series of surgeries since then.
The parliamentarian said that possible sequelae do not bring apprehension to the 2026 elections. Bolsonaro has said he will be a candidate, despite being ineligible until 2030 by decision of the Superior Electoral Court for abuse of power during the 2022 election campaign.
“There is today an ineligibility process that we believe will be reversed in the judiciary and the candidacy of the party that is maintained is that of President Bolsonaro,” said the senator during an interview at Rio Grande Hospital in the Potiguar capital.
Before the hospitalization, 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 (PL), who accompanies Bolsonaro in Rio Grande do Norte, said he was stabilized and painted the hotel where he was staying in 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.
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.
Supporters who were on the road to accompany the agenda in the countryside returned to Natal around 12 noon and began to meet at the hospital door. They perform prayers in front of the health unit.
