Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro leaves hospital after recovering from bowel surgery
- Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left DF Star Hospital in Brasilia on Sunday, May 4, 2025, after recovering from bowel surgery.
- He was admitted on April 11 with severe abdominal pain related to a 2018 stabbing injury that caused multiple intestinal surgeries during his presidency from 2019 to 2022.
- Bolsonaro left intensive care on Wednesday, spent days recovering, started a liquid diet, and appeared solemn but greeted a cheering crowd waving Brazilian flags upon discharge.
- Doctors described the latest surgery, his sixth and most difficult, as stable, while supporter Ronaldo de Barretos displayed a cap with Bolsonaro's slogan, 'God, homeland, family and freedom.'
- Bolsonaro is barred from running but had prepared to campaign across northeast Brazil promoting his Liberal Party’s agenda and faces an upcoming trial in Brazil’s Supreme Court for an alleged January 2023 coup attempt.
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Bolsonaro discharged from hospital
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from DF Star Hospital in Brasilia, three weeks after undergoing complex abdominal surgery for an intestinal blockage stemming from the 2018 stabbing during his electoral campaign. He has been hospitalized several times since then, undergoing up to 6 surgeries. Doctors described his most recent procedure as the most complicated.
Bolsonaro leaves the hospital after three weeks admitted for an operation in the abdomen
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro left the hospital this Sunday after having stayed three weeks after undergoing a new abdominal operation, more than twelve hours, resulting from the sequelae of a stab wound he received in 2018, when he was a candidate. Bolsonaro has left his own foot from the hospital in Brasilia where he was since last April 12, where he underwent surgery due to an intestinal obstruction, after finding himself badly in …
Jair Bolsonaro receives medical discharge after 22 days in hospital after abdominal operation
After 22 days, Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, left the DF Star, a private clinic in Brasilia, this Sunday after receiving medical discharge.The ex-mandatario, 70 years old, underwent a new abdominal surgery in mid-April.This is the sixth - and the most complex - he has had to face since he was stabbed during a campaign event in the presidential race of 2018.On 13 April, Bolsonaro was operated after intense abdominal pains, which he s…
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