Tag: Bolsonaro surgey

• Friday, January 2nd 2026 - 08:28 UTC

  Bolsonaro leaves hospital, goes back to Police HQs

  

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left Brasilia's DF Star Hospital late Thursday afternoon and was transferred back to the Federal Police's detention facility, where he is serving his 27-year prison sentence for masterminding the Jan 8, 2023, coup attempt.

• Saturday, December 20th 2025 - 09:58 UTC

  De Moraes okays Bolsonaro's surgery, but not at home recuperation time

  

  Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes on Friday authorized former President Jair Bolsonaro to temporarily leave prison to undergo surgery. However, the magistrate flatly denied a request for the former president to serve the remainder of his sentence under humanitarian house arrest, citing a history of non-compliance and a high flight risk.

• Friday, September 13th 2019 - 17:04 UTC

  Bolsonaro's recovery period extended for a further four days

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will need four days more than planned to recover from abdominal surgery, his spokesman said on Thursday. “The president of the republic's team of doctors has decided to keep him away from the exercise of his duties... four additional days, ” said Otavio Rego Barros, his spokesman.

• Saturday, February 9th 2019 - 07:12 UTC

  Bolsonaro medical condition improving but will still remain some time in hospital

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has no fever or pain and is quickly overcoming a bout of pneumonia, signs that his medical condition is improving, spokesman General Otavio Rego Barros said on Friday.

• Friday, February 8th 2019 - 08:22 UTC

  Bolsonaro recovering from intestinal surgery but has caught pneumonia

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has pneumonia after registering a fever during a hospital stay, but a tweet on the far-right leader’s Twitter profile on Thursday said he was “well.”Bolsonaro had an operation on Jan. 28 to remove a colostomy bag that was put in place after he was stabbed while campaigning ahead of Brazil’s election last year.

• Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 08:16 UTC

  Bolsonaro undergoes surgery on Monday and will spend ten days in hospital

  

  Brazil's new right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro will undergo surgery on Monday in Sao Paulo's Albert Einstein hospital to remove a colostomy bag he has had since he was stabbed on the campaign trail last year, his spokesman said on Friday.

• Saturday, November 24th 2018 - 06:26 UTC

  Brazil president-elect Bolsonaro's colostomy surgery postponed until mid January

  

  Doctors treating Brazil president-elect Jair Bolsonaro said in a Friday statement they have delayed removing his colostomy bag and that his intestines remain inflamed, though he is in overall good health after being stabbed in a September assassination attempt.