“He is feeling good and doing well,” it said.
Local media outlet G1 reported that Bolsonaro had been admitted for unspecified medical testing after feeling abdominal pains during the early hours of Wednesday.
In the many recent presidential live streams,Bolsonaro’s hiccuping is evident and he has prefaced some talks with acknowledgment of his hiccuping and disrupted speech. In a national address on social media last Thursday,Bolsonaro struggled to express himself at one point,and said he had been suffering from hiccups for a week.
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Bolsonaro’s health has been an issue during his presidency. He nearly died afterbeing stabbed in the intestines on the campaign trail in 2018,resulting in multiple follow-up surgeries. Pro-Bolsonaro federal lawmaker Bia Kicis wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that Bolsonaro’s hospitalisation was “a consequence of the 2018 knifing”.
“Hiccups” were trending on Google in relation to Bolsonaro in the past week,Brazilian newspaperO Globo reported.
The newspaper said that Antonio Luiz Macedo,the surgeon who operated on Bolsonaro in 2018,had been called to Brasilia to be with the President.