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Bolsonaro is treated in hospital with abdominal pain

President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) was admitted to the Armed Forces Hospital on Thursday night (17), in Brasília, with severe pain in the abdominal region and is undergoing tests. The need for further surgery is still being assessed.

The information was confirmed today by sources from the Institutional Security Office interviewed by Estadão/Broadcast Político.

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Bolsonaro was stabbed on September 6, 2018 during the presidential campaign, in Juiz de Fora (MG), and has already undergone four surgeries.

The current diagnosis is a new hernia in the surgery scar, which has already been operated on once, in 2019. According to information so far, the president does not intend to undergo a new surgical procedure now, but the condition is still in progress. assessment.

Since being defeated at the polls in his re-election attempt, Bolsonaro has closed himself in the Palácio da Alvorada and only appeared in public once, two days later.

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He was also at Planalto the following week by surprise, in a quick visit, when he was convinced by allies to tell vice-president-elect Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) that he was available for the transition.

People close to him have stated that the president was injured and developed an infection in his leg, called erysipelas, but he would be better and would return to work in person next week.

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