President of the Republic hospitalized after feeling unwell. Will undergo surgery

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was admitted late in the afternoon to Hospital de São João, in Porto, after feeling unwell and experiencing severe abdominal pain. The president will undergo emergency surgery in the same hospital unit, but “he is fine”, confirmed the medical team.

“The President of the Republic was admitted, this late afternoon, to the São João University Hospital, in Porto, after having unwell sensefollowing a digestion stopwhen he returned from Amarante, from the funeral of Engineer António Mota”, said a note posted on the website of the Presidency of the Republic.

“The doctors from the Presidency of the Republic understood that, before making the return trip to Lisbon, It would be better to carry out tests doctors, which are currently being carried out by the medical team of this National Health Service hospital”, added the note.

The Presidency of the Republic said that once the results are known, new information will be provided. According to SIC Notícias, the president, who vomiting and felt severe abdominal pain, it will be underwent surgerya hospital source confirmed to the television station.

According to the same station, the president will undergo a surgical intervention at obstruction in the intestine — an incarcerated hernia., more specifically a “Spiegel’s hernia“. The surgery, whose duration can vary greatly”, will take at least one to two hourswhich may take longer.

The president is fine

Speaking to journalists at 10:55 p.m., the medical team at Hospital de São João said that the president “is fine”, and confirmed that he will undergo surgery for an incarcerated hernia in the hospital unit.

According to the medical team, “it is likely that the president will stay here with us for a few days“.

The intervention “has a low riska low surgical risk, a low anesthetic risk, and complications are unlikely, but we have to have the notion that it is a surgery, it is an anesthesia for someone who has already had similar procedures, and therefore the team will be very rigorous”.

“We are talking about urgent, non-emergent surgery. The president is from the Republic very well disposed, spoke to usand made a point of sending a positive message to people at home”, added the medical team.

The Prime Minister, Luis Montenegrohas now spoken by telephone with Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and is monitoring the evolution of the president’s health status.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was in the north of the countrywhere he participated in the funeral of the former president of Mota-Engil, Antonio Mota who died this Sunday, aged 71.

The president was at the Church of São Gonçalo, in Amarantewhere at 3 pm mass was held for the former president of the construction company, and from where the businessman’s remains were sent to the family tomb, in the Amarante cemetery.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa presided during the morningin Praça dos Restauradores, to the celebrations in honor of the Heroes of the Restoration and the War of Acclamation, which celebrates the reestablishment of national independence in 1640.

Already last surgical intervention he underwentin December 2021, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa underwent surgery for two inguinal hernias, at the Hospital das Forças Armadas, in Lisbon, recalls . In December 2017 he also underwent emergency surgery for an umbilical hernia, this time at Curry Cabral Hospital.

Two years ago, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa fainted during a ceremony at the Faculty of Science and Technology, in Caparica, and was taken to Santa Cruz Hospital, where he was hospitalized for four hours, recalls .

Previously, in 2018, the president had, in Braga, been transported in arms by security guards to a nearby hotel.