BRASILIA.- Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonarowho is serving a 27-year prison sentence for an attempted coup, He underwent a medical procedure this Saturday to treat the hiccups he has been suffering from for months.his wife reported.
The 70-year-old former president left prison for the first time on Wednesday, where he has been held since the end of November. to have an inguinal hernia operated on at the DF Star Hospital in Brasilia, where he remains hospitalized.
The operation went smoothly on Thursday and his doctors said they would evaluate in the coming days whether further medical intervention was needed to treat a recurrent hiccups: the anesthetic blockage of the phrenic nerve, which controls the diaphragm.
“My darling just went to the surgery center to perform the phrenic nerve block,” announced the former president’s wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, who accompanies him in the hospital, in an Instagram post this Saturday.
“It was nine months of struggle and torment with daily hiccups”lamented the former first lady.
Surgeon Cláudio Birolini said that a medical report would be released in the next few hours and that a press conference was scheduled for the evening.
The former right-wing extremist president (2019-2022) is suffering from the consequences of the wound in his abdomen that he sustained from a knife stab at a campaign rally in 2018, which required several major operations.
The proceedings this Saturday consist of Use an ultrasound machine to look for the nerve’s path and once located, inject it with pain medicationBolsonaro’s doctor Claudio Birolini told journalists on Thursday.
“Hiccups are a very worrying symptom for him because it makes him very tired and affects his sleep (…) he’s practically attacked by this hiccup“said the same day Dr. Brasil Caiado, who also treated the former president during his hospitalization in Brasilia.
The doctors had expected to decide on Monday whether the procedure was necessary. They did not give an estimated duration.
Bolsonaro was under preventative house arrest between August and November. He went to prison on November 22, a few days earlier than expected, for attempting to damage his electronic anklet with a soldering iron.
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