The former president (), convicted by , began a new surgical intervention this Monday afternoon (29).
“My love just went to the operating room to undergo the second anesthetic block procedure of the phrenic nerve”, published his wife, around 2 pm.
“I ask you to pray for him and the entire medical team,” he added.
This is the third procedure the former president has undergone since he was hospitalized last Wednesday (24), initially due to a hernia.
The medical procedure needed to be authorized by the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Alexandre de Moraes, as Bolsonaro is currently in prison at the Federal District’s Superintendence.
On Thursday (25), Christmas Day, the former president underwent his first surgery to treat his hernia.
After this intervention, his doctors began to assess the need for a new procedure, this time to try to control his hiccups.
A first procedure took place last Saturday (27), and lasted between 45 minutes and 1 hour.
Even so, according to the published medical bulletin, he began having hiccups again and recorded an increase in blood pressure — but his condition later stabilized.
The medical team, however, assessed that it was necessary to complete this process, which is why Bolsonaro was again subjected to an intervention this Monday.
This time, the objective was to carry out the . This occurs with the application of anesthetic and corticosteroids to a nerve in the diaphragm, close to the cervical region, according to the team.
