The statement comes on the same day that the PGR expressed its support for the former president’s house arrest
The former president Jair Bolsonaro should be discharged from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) from the DF Star hospital tomorrow, according to a medical bulletin released this Monday (23).
According to the statement, he continues treatment for bilateral pneumonia resulting from bronchopneumonia. Bolsonaro is stable and shows favorable and uneventful progress, according to the bulletin.
He continues treatment with antibiotics in the veinsin addition to respiratory and motor physiotherapy. The text says that, if the evolution continues, he should leave the ICU within the next 24 hours.
The statement comes on the same day that the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) placed Bolsonaro under house arrest.
House arrest
“In the opinion of the Attorney General of the Republic, the need for house arrest is confirmed, providing the necessary care for full-time monitoring of the health status of the former president, who is demonstrably subject to sudden and unpredictable harmful changes from one moment to the next”, says the Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, in an opinion sent to the STF.
The former president is detained in the General Staff Room of the 19th Military Police Battalion of the DFknown as Papudinha, since January 15th. At the beginning of March, the defense made a request that he serve his sentence at home, however. However, the situation took a turn in the early hours of March 13, when Bolsonaro had to be rushed to DF Star Hospital.
In the opinion sent to the STF, the attorney general used the medical information to support the decisionstating that “the health status of the house arrest applicant demands the constant and attentive attention that the family environment, but not the current prison system, is capable of providing”.
The document states that the State has the duty to preserve physical integrity ea life of those in your custody. The PGR highlighted the current vulnerability of the former presidentjustifying the urgency of the measure by pointing out that it is demonstrably “subject to sudden and unpredictable harmful changes from one moment to the next”.
Gonet’s recommendation is that house arrest be granted with periodic medical reassessments that prove the need for Bolsonaro to remain at home. The final decision on the transfer will be made by the case’s rapporteur at the STF, Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
Moraes had asked on Friday (20) for a about the request for house arrest of Bolsonaro.
