Former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) is showing good clinical progress after surgery on his right shoulder carried out this Friday, informed the DF Star Hospital, in a statement released this Saturday, 2. According to the hospital, Bolsonaro remains hospitalized and will undergo a “motor and functional rehabilitation protocol”.
“The DF Star hospital informs that former president Jair Messias Bolsonaro is hospitalized, after undergoing arthroscopic repair surgery on the rotator cuff on the right. He showed good evolution and good pain control. At the moment, he remains hospitalized in an apartment for analgesia, thrombosis prevention measures and will begin a motor and functional rehabilitation protocol”, says the DF Star note.
Bolsonaro performed an “arthroscopic repair of the rotator cuff on the right”, related to the right shoulder joint. The former president, who is under house arrest for an attempted coup d’état after the 2022 elections, complained of recurring pain that required daily use of painkillers.
Bolsonaro’s defense asked for authorization for the former president to have the surgery on April 21st and the minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Alexandre de Moraes, allowed it on Thursday, the 30th.
After the surgery was over, the cardiologist on the medical team treating Bolsonaro, Brasil Caiado, stated upon leaving the hospital that the surgery took three hours and that there is no forecast for the ex-president’s discharge.
