Bolsonaro discharged from Hospital after three weeks following intestinal surgery

Brasilia, (EFE).- Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was discharged from a Brasilia hospital on Sunday after a three-week stay following surgery to treat a serious intestinal blockage.

The 70-year-old far-right leader walked out of the DF Star Hospital on his own and greeted a group of supporters gathered outside the private clinic, where he had been hospitalized since the night of Apr. 12.

“Back home, renewed,” Bolsonaro wrote on social media as he announced his release from the hospital.

Doctors reported that Bolsonaro’s recovery had progressed well in recent days, with no pain or fever and stable blood pressure.

On Saturday, he was cleared to switch from intravenous feeding to a soft oral diet, which he tolerated without complications.

The former president underwent surgery on Apr. 13, just two days after experiencing intense abdominal pain during a political event in the northeastern city of Natal.

This marks the seventh abdominal operation Bolsonaro has undergone since he was stabbed in the stomach during a 2018 campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, an attack carried out by a man later declared mentally ill.

That stabbing caused long-term damage to his digestive system.

According to his medical team, the most recent procedure, which lasted around 12 hours, was the most complex since the 2018 incident.

It aimed to relieve the intestinal obstruction and reconstruct part of the abdominal wall.

Despite his ongoing legal and health challenges, Bolsonaro remains active in Brazil’s political scene.

He said Sunday he plans to attend a rally scheduled for next Wednesday in Brasilia in support of a proposed amnesty law for those convicted over the Jan. 8, 2023 attack on government institutions.

Bolsonaro is facing trial at Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court over accusations that he attempted to orchestrate a coup after losing the 2022 presidential election to Luis Inácio Lula da Silva.

According to federal prosecutors, the final stage of the alleged plot occurred on Jan. 8, 2023, when thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed the headquarters of the presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court in an attempt to provoke a military intervention and overturn the election results.

Lula had taken office just one week earlier. EFE

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