FILE – Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, quickly allowed out of home arrest for medical therapy, departs a hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, Sept. 14, 2025.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has pneumonia and is receiving therapy in an intensive care unit, a hospital within the capital, Brasilia, stated Friday.
Considered one of his docs, Brasil Caiado, instructed journalists that the 70-year-old’s medical state of affairs was severe.
“Pneumonia in patients over 70 is always serious because it can progress to septicemia, since the bacteria can normally enter the bloodstream and cause an even more severe condition,” Caiado stated.
Earlier within the day, Bolsonaro’s eldest son Flávio stated on X that his father was being transferred from jail to a hospital after waking up with chills and vomiting.
“I ask for prayers that it not be anything serious,” Flávio wrote. Flávio Bolsonaro has stated he’ll run for president this 12 months, and up to date polls present him and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva nearly tied.
Jair Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year sentence for trying a coup after he was convicted final 12 months by a panel of Supreme Courtroom justices.
He was admitted to the hospital after experiencing excessive fever, low oxygen, sweating and chills, DF Star Hospital stated in a press release. Exams confirmed bronchopneumonia, a kind of pneumonia, seemingly brought on by aspiration.
“He is currently hospitalized in the intensive care unit, receiving IV antibiotics and non-invasive clinical support,” the hospital stated.
Caiado, a heart specialist, stated that it was unlikely that Bolsonaro would return to jail within the subsequent few days as a result of the therapy is intravenous and needs to be performed in a hospital setting.
The embattled ex-leader was transferred to a bigger cell in January, however his kin have repeatedly requested the Supreme Courtroom to permit Bolsonaro to hold out his sentence below home arrest. They allege he’s being mistreated and receiving inadequate medical consideration.
On Friday, Carlos Bolsonaro — one of many former president’s sons — stated on X “the system, literally and insistently, (is) trying to kill” his father.
The Courtroom has refuted these claims and refused to permit Bolsonaro to serve his sentence at residence.
Bolsonaro has been hospitalized a number of occasions since being stabbed at a marketing campaign occasion earlier than the 2018 presidential election.
In January, police escorted him to the identical hospital for mind checks after he fell from his mattress.
Bolsonaro and several other of his allies had been convicted in September of trying to overthrow Brazil’s democratic system following his 2022 election defeat. The plot included plans to kill Lula, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Courtroom Justice Alexandre de Moraes. There was additionally a plan to encourage an rebellion in early 2023.
Bolsonaro was additionally convicted on fees that embody main an armed legal group and trying the violent abolition of the democratic rule of regulation. He has denied any wrongdoing.
His trial acquired renewed worldwide consideration after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Brazil, citing the judicial proceedings in opposition to his ally, which Trump referred to as a “witch hunt.” Lots of these taxes have since been eliminated.
