Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, sentenced to 24 years and three months in prison for coup plot, entered the operating room this Monday to undergo surgery. second intervention to stop hiccups from which he has suffered for months, his wife reported. The leader of the Brazilian far right underwent a first surgical procedure on Saturday to try to stop involuntary contractions, but without success and he spent the night awake due to a new seizure.
“You just went to the surgery center to have your second operation.” anesthetic phrenic nerve block“, noted the wife of the former president, Michelle Bolsonaro, on social networks. In the first intervention, the doctors blocked the right side of the phrenic nerve and this Monday they will do it on the left side, to see if they can put an end to the hiccups of the far-right leader, which, apparently, is the product of the stab wound he suffered during the 2018 presidential campaign.
On Sunday, Bolsonaro remained “stable and without hiccups” and continued the post-operative care of the inguinal hernia operation he underwent on Christmas Day, according to the medical bulletin published in the afternoon. The far-right leader left the federal police headquarters in Brasilia, where he is serving his sentence, on December 24 to undergo surgery for a bilateral inguinal hernia.
The former head of state (2019-2022) was admitted to the DF Star private hospital and He is expected to remain hospitalized for at least a week. Bolsonaro was convicted of leading a plot to try to stay in power after losing the 2022 election, in which progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was the winner. In addition to this sentence, the former president is disqualified from elections until 2060.
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