US EditionBrazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro is out of intensive care but still hospitalized, doctors say
- Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro left intensive care on April 24 at DF Star Hospital in Brasilia but remains hospitalized.
- Bolsonaro underwent his sixth surgery on April 13 to treat long-term effects from a stabbing during a 2018 campaign rally.
- The 12-hour surgery removed intestinal adhesions and reconstructed his abdominal wall, marking his most complex procedure since the stabbing.
- Doctors described the surgery as requiring a "very delicate and prolonged post-surgery" recovery and noted his stable condition with a liquid diet started.
- Bolsonaro's release date is unset, and he is expected to stand trial soon for allegedly attempting a coup in January 2023.
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Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has already left the intensive care unit almost three weeks after being admitted to a hospital in Brasilia because of severe abdominal pains that resulted on April 13 in a new intestinal operation. Bolsonaro himself has announced on social networks that he has gone to plant and that he is "clinically stable", "painless" and adapting to a liquid diet. However, he has clarified that doctors still do not da…
In the 2018 election campaign, a man stabbed Bolsonaro in his stomach and seriously injured him.The former president still suffers from the consequences, which is why he had to undergo intestinal surgery.
The former president of Brazil was subjected to a delicate bowel operation, after the stabbing he suffered in 2018."At this moment I find myself clinically stable, pain free and without fever," he said.
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Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro is out of intensive care but still hospitalized, doctors say
Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, who continues to recover after undergoing bowel surgery, has left intensive care, his doctors said Thursday.
The former president of Brazil was transferred to semi-intensive care at a hospital in Brasilia. He has not yet anticipated discharge
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