Former president he underwent examinations on Saturday (16.ago); picture is stable and doctors discard new surgery
The former president (PL) went on Saturday (16.2025) to the DF Star Hospital in Brasilia, for an examinated battery authorized by the Minister of the Supreme Court (STF). The medical report indicates that image exams identified remnants of two recent pulmonary infections, associated with bronchoaspiration – the passage of stomach or mouth content to the lungs. Read the bulletin (PDF – 125 kb).
The test battery investigated a recent fever, cough, gastroesophageal reflux and sobs. Bolsonaro has a stable condition and will follow drug treatment without new surgery.
An endoscopy showed persistence of now less intense esophagitis and gastritis that require continuous follow -up. The former president should maintain therapies for hypertension and reflux, as well as follow nutritional guidance and exercise.
According to Cláudio Birolini, a doctor’s head of the surgical team, house arrest limits Bolsonaro’s physical activity, negatively impacting his health. “He is a very active person, likes to communicate, likes to be close to people. And he is deprived of all this. So, obviously, this negatively influences”he declared.
“He is a very active person, likes to communicate, likes to be close to people. And he is deprived of all this. So, of course, this negatively influences”Said Birolini.
Bolsonaro arrived at the hospital on Saturday morning (16.ago), where supporters prayed and sang waiting for him. The former president told them: “I can’t talk”. It was the first time he left his home, in the Solar Condominium of Brasilia, since Moraes decreed his house arrest on August 4, 2025 for breach of precautionary measures.
Since August 17, 2025, the former presidential president. Questioned by Poder360 If the device was removed to perform the tomography, Birolini denied: “Cannot take the anklet under any circumstances”.
The Federal District Penitentiary Administration Secretariat accompanied Bolsonaro’s trip to the hospital to make sure there was no non -compliance with precautionary measures.
Bolsonaro was discharged at 1:58 pm. It has 48 hours to attach to court the certificate of attendance, as determined by Alexandre de Moraes.
