Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, fell out of bed and hit his head on a piece of furniture, so a doctor from the Federal Police examined him, found that “he suffers minor injuries” and concluded that it is not necessary for him to be transferred to the hospital. However, the far-right’s private doctors have recommended that he undergo tests at a health center. Bolsonaro has been detained since the end of November in Brasilia.
The judge handling his case, Alexandre de Moraes, has denied the request for him to go to the hospital and has determined that the prisoner remains under observation for the moment. Moraes has also asked doctors to indicate what tests are required to find out if they can be performed in the prison system.
The former president, still the leader of the Brazilian right, is 70 years old and has various health problems. In the middle of Christmas to undergo surgery for a hernia and other procedures, also in the operating room, to try to resolve the recurring hiccups he suffers from.
His wife, Michelle, has raised the alarm: “My love is not feeling well. Early in the morning, while she was sleeping, she suffered a seizure, fell and hit her head against a piece of furniture,” the former first lady wrote on social media. And she has assured that “as the room remains closed, she only received medical attention” in the morning, when she arrived to visit him.
Since he was sentenced to 27 years in prison and more intensely since he began serving his sentence, Bolsonaro’s defense has tried to get the judge to accept that the prisoner . That way he would be with his wife and young daughter in a chalet and not in a Federal Police cell. For the moment, the magistrate has rejected all requests in this regard.
