According to the newspaper or globeBolsonaro, 67, was admitted to AdventHealth Celebration Hospital due to “severe abdominal pain.”
Bolsonaro has been hospitalized several times in recent years with intestinal obstructions after being stabbed while campaigning for the presidency in 2018.
In Brazil, Dr. Antonio Luiz Macedo, who has been treating Bolsonaro since the stabbing, said he has a subocclusion, or intestinal obstruction, but is unlikely to need surgery. “It is not a serious case,” he told Reuters.
Earlier, a source close to his family said Bolsonaro’s condition was “not worrisome.”
Bolsonaro has undergone six surgeries since his stabbing, four of them directly related to the attack. He has also had cases of adhesions and intestinal obstructions in recent years.
The United States has not received any official request from the Brazilian government regarding the status of former President Jair Bolsonaro after his supporters stormed the Brazilian Congress, the White House said Monday.
“So far we have not received any official request from the Brazilian government related to Bolsonaro,” White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters in Mexico, where he accompanied President Joe Biden to a summit of leaders from the Americas. from North.
“Of course, if we receive such requests, we will treat them as we always do, we will treat them seriously,” he added.
He assured that US officials are not in direct contact with Bolsonaro
With information from AFP and Reuters