Bolsonaro maintains clinical and laboratory improvement, but remains in ICU
Former president Jair Bolsonaro maintained clinical and laboratory improvement over the last 24 hours, according to a medical bulletin released this Tuesday (17) by the DF Star Hospital, in Brasília.
Bolsonaro has been admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) since last Friday morning (13), treating bilateral bacterial bronchopneumonia of probable aspiration origin.
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According to the medical team, on Monday afternoon (16), the former president was transferred to new intensive care accommodation, “more suitable for the current clinical situation”.
According to the bulletin, Bolsonaro remains undergoing treatment with intravenous antibiotic therapy, with intensive clinical support, respiratory and motor physiotherapy and with no expected discharge.
The document is signed by general surgeon Cláudio Birolini; by cardiologists Leandro Echenique and Brasil Caiado; by the coordinator of the General ICU, Antônio Aurélio de Paiva Fagundes Júnior; and by the hospital’s general director, Allisson B. Barcelos Borges.
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The former president is serving a sentence of 27 years and 3 months, for attempted coup d’état and other related crimes, and was detained in Papudinha, a building in the Papuda Penitentiary Complex.
Last Friday, he felt ill and was taken by a team from the Mobile Emergency Care Service (Samu) to DF Star Hospital, with a high fever, a drop in oxygen saturation, sweating and chills.
