Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized in the intensive care unit suffering from bronchial pneumonia while serving prison time on charges of plotting a coup.
The 70-year-old was admitted to Brasilia’s DF Star Hospital after suffering high fever and respiratory complications while in prison.
The former leader suffered “high fever, low oxygen saturation, sweating and chills,” according to a hospital statement shared on social media by his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro.
Doctors said Bolsonaro was receiving intravenous antibiotics to treat “bilateral bacterial bronchopneumonia.”
On Friday morning, Bolsonaro’s eldest son, Flavio, a senator and presidential candidate, told X that his father woke up with chills and severe vomiting.
Jair Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year prison sentence for a failed coup attempt after losing the 2022 presidential election.
The former president has suffered from recurring health complications since being stabbed in the abdomen during a campaign rally in 2018.
Brazil’s Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected requests from lawyers to sentence Bolsonaro to house arrest.
“They are playing with my father’s life,” Flavio Bolsonaro said after being discharged from hospital.
“He should at least be granted humanitarian house arrest,” the senator told reporters.
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