Candidate Jair Bolsonaro is fed fluids orally

Brazilian presidential hopeful Jair Bolsonaro, of the Social Liberal Party (PSL) started being fed fluids orally on Wednesday (Sep. 19), with intravenous feeding uninterrupted, according to a report released this afternoon by the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, where he was admitted on September 7.

Bolsonaro is currently receiving semi-intensive care and still has no fever or signs of infection. He is also doing respiratory exercises and going for walks.

On Sunday afternoon (16), the candidate was discharged from the intensive care unit (ICU) and taken to his current room. He had received intensive care since Wednesday (12), when he underwent surgery to repair an adhesion in his small intestine.

Prior to the complications, doctors had started to feed him orally.

Bolsonaro was stabbed during a campaign rally on September 6 in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, southeast Brazil. After being assisted at the city’s Santa Casa, where he underwent surgery, he was relocated at his family’s request to Hospital Albert Einstein, in São Paulo, on Friday morning (7).