Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who was hospitalized for a bacterial skin infection while campaigning in the Amazon region, is doing well and will be transferred Monday to the capital, one of his sons said.
“My father is doing well, reacting well to antibiotics and should be transferred to Brasilia today,” lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro said on X, formerly Twitter.
The post features a picture of the right-wing former president, who was in office from 2019 to 2022, lying down in a hospital gown with sheets partially covering him. The skin of his left shin is severely reddened.
On Sunday, the 69-year-old Bolsonaro announced on X that he had been hospitalized in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, for erysipelas, a bacterial skin infection that can cause pain and fever.
Bolsonaro had been in Manaus, the biggest city in Brazil’s Amazon region, to campaign for Alberto Neto, the Liberal Party candidate for the October mayoral election.
Santa Julia Hospital confirmed that Bolsonaro had been admitted on Saturday.
Bolsonaro suffered from a similar infection in November 2022, shortly after his election loss to current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. At the time, he remained for several days at his residence in Brasilia.
He has been hospitalized several times in recent years — most recently in September — and has also undergone multiple surgeries after being stabbed in the abdomen during the 2018 presidential campaign.
