Bolsonaro confesses that he has a “large hernia” that could make him undergo surgery

The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who this week was admitted to a hospital for an intestinal obstruction for two days, has affirmed that he has a “large hernia” that “maybe” requires you to undergo surgery.

“I am with a large hernia on the right side. I may need to have a (surgical) mesh fitted. The rest, all good, “said the far-right president in statements to journalists in Brasilia.

Bolsonaro, 66, was discharged last Wednesday after spending two days in a hospital in Sao Paulo from a bowel obstruction, a problem that he has suffered since he received a stab in the abdomen during the 2018 electoral campaign.

The mandatary interrupted his vacation in the southern state of Santa Catarina and he rushed by plane to Sao Paulo due to abdominal pain caused by an intestinal obstruction, according to the tests he underwent at the Vila Nova Star Hospital.

Doctors placed a catheter on him and he overcame the obstruction with conservative treatment. Bolsonaro suffered the same problem in July 2021, when he was also admitted to the same hospital for a few days for another intestinal obstruction from which he was also cured without the need for surgery.

The retired Army captain insists that his health problems are the result of the stabbing that a mental patient gave him in an act of the 2018 electoral campaign, the year in which he was elected president. That attack, about which Bolsonaro has come to accuse the left, has led to four surgeries on the abdomen since then.

This latest admission to the hospital It came at a time when the ruler was receiving criticism on the part of the opposition and the press for not going to the areas affected by the serious floods that occurred in the northeast of the country and continuing with their vacations.