Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, 70, is recovering in a hospital in Brasilia from four surgical procedures he has undergone since . One intervention was to treat a hernia, the rest were for recurrent hiccups. The far-right, who suffers from various health problems, has been serving a 27-year sentence since November for plotting a coup d’état. This Wednesday, the politician underwent an endoscopy to evaluate gastroesophageal reflux. His medical team has reported after the test that he is stable and the forecast is that he will be discharged this Thursday, January 1, if no problems arise in the next few hours.
You will then return to the main police station in Brasilia, . In December, Bolsonaro appointed his eldest son, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, from next October.
This Wednesday Bolsonaro received good news. A judge has annulled another judge’s decision to withdraw the benefits he enjoys as former president: a security team, official car, driver and advisors. The judge maintains that depriving him of these means entails “the risk of doing irreparable damage to the dignity and well-being of a former president of the Republic.”
Doctors have explained that the diaphragm spasms will not stop but will be treated with medication. They have also revealed that Bolsonaro’s mood worsens greatly during crises and that he himself has requested that he be prescribed antidepressants, which have been added to his treatment.
The former president was hospitalized on Christmas Eve for a scheduled intervention due to an inguinal hernia. Subsequently, the doctors addressed the serious hiccups that he had been experiencing for months. Bolsonaro also suffers from severe apnea and hypertension. His defense lawyers are trying, so far unsuccessfully, to get Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes to allow him to serve his sentence in house arrest for humanitarian reasons and his age.
The former Brazilian president underwent a new surgical procedure this Tuesday to reinforce the blockage of a nerve in the diaphragm in order to control his recurrent hiccups, according to his medical team. This has been the third intervention on the diaphragm in the last four days that the former president has undergone, all of them aimed at stopping these difficulties that he has suffered for months.
“[Bolsonaro] “He presented new episodes of hiccups, for which he was subjected to a supplementation of the anesthetic block of the bilateral phrenic nerves,” indicated the last report from the DF Star Hospital in Brasilia, where he remains in “postoperative care.”
The far-right leader entered that private clinic, with prior judicial authorization, on the 24th to correct a bilateral inguinal hernia. On Christmas Day he underwent surgery for the hernia, which is progressing well.
From that moment on, doctors focused on treating the hiccups, the result of the dozen surgeries he has undergone since . Last Saturday his right phrenic nerve was partially blocked. And on Monday, the left one. However, this Tuesday he had new episodes of involuntary contractions of the diaphragm, according to his son Carlos Bolsonaro, who was a councilor and aspires to a seat in the Senate.
Michelle Bolsonaro, wife of the ultra leader, also reported that these new episodes did not stop until Tuesday afternoon. So, the medical team chose to perform “a reinforcement of the phrenic nerve block.”
The retired Army captain continues with “respiratory physiotherapy,” night treatment for sleep apnea and “preventive measures for thrombosis.”
On September 11, the former president after losing the 2022 presidential elections to the current ruler, the progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
