Brazilian president’s workplace says Jair Bolsonaro is affected by intestinal blockage and is being taken to Sao Paulo.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is being taken to Sao Paulo the place medical doctors will decide if he wants emergency surgical procedure, his workplace mentioned on Wednesday, after the far-right chief was hospitalised for power hiccups.
Bolsonaro, 66, had been complaining publicly since final week about affected by hiccups following surgical procedure on a dental implant on July 3.
His workplace mentioned in a press release that Bolsonaro, who has required a number of surgical procedures since being stabbed within the stomach at a political rally in 2018, was affected by an intestinal blockage.
Earlier on Wednesday, the workplace mentioned he had been taken to a navy hospital within the capital Brasilia “to endure assessments and to analyze the reason for the hiccups”.
Talking to a neighborhood radio station final week, Bolsonaro had mentioned, “This occurred to me earlier than, possibly as a result of medication I’m taking, I’ve hiccups 24 hours a day.”
Bolsonaro’s well being has been a problem throughout his presidency.
He almost died after being stabbed within the intestines on the marketing campaign path in 2018, leading to a number of follow-up surgical procedures. Professional-Bolsonaro federal legislator Bia Kicis wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that Bolsonaro’s hospitalisation was “a consequence of the 2018 knifing”.
It got here because the president is dealing with mass protests and a Senate fee investigation into his authorities’s dealing with of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed greater than 535,800 individuals so far, in line with Johns Hopkins College information.
Bolsonaro has additionally been accused of failing to adequately reply to alleged irregularities within the Brazilian well being ministry’s procurement of a COVID-19 vaccine from India. After the studies of irregularities turned public, the federal government suspended the contract.
Citing an unnamed supply with data of the matter, the Reuters information company reported on Monday that Brazil’s federal police had formally opened a probe into Bolsonaro over the allegations.
The far-right chief additionally was accused this month of collaborating in a scheme to skim his aides’ salaries when he served as a federal deputy.
The president has denied all of the allegations in opposition to him.
However latest polls present his reputation is slipping, which might spell dangerous information upfront of elections scheduled for subsequent 12 months.
In the course of the weekend, a Datafolha survey confirmed 54 p.c of Brazilians assist a proposed transfer by the nation’s decrease home to open impeachment proceedings in opposition to Bolsonaro, in contrast with 42 p.c who oppose it.
It was the primary time a majority of Brazilians supported such a measure.