Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is admitted to Hospital de S. João, in Porto, and is already undergoing surgery to resolve an incarcerated abdominal hernia. Upon returning from the funeral of Antonio Motawhich took place in Amarante, the President felt unwell, nauseated and vomiting, and no longer came to Lisbon. Tonight he will certainly be hospitalized, but he may remain in the hospital for a period of time. three to seven days.
“We are talking about an urgent surgery, not an emergent one. The President is very willing”, said Maria João Baptista, president of the Hospital’s Board of Directors, who provided journalists with the information main updates on the President’s clinical status, ensuring that “the procedure has a relatively low risk, whether surgical or anesthetic”.
Despite being “little there are likely to be complications”, Maria João Baptista highlighted that we are talking about a surgical procedure on someone who has “already undergone similar procedures” and that, therefore, “the team will take all the necessary care for a patient with this pathology”.
He is “a bit of a doctor” and has even been “discussing the procedure with the anesthesiologist”, said Fernando Frutuoso de Melo, head of the Civil House, who assured that Marcelo was “calm” and was already talking about “tomorrow, the next day and after that”. The question of replacing functions, said Frutuoso de Melo, “does not arise at this time”.
“The doctors from the Presidency of the Republic understood that, before making the return trip to Lisbon, it would be better to undergo medical examinationswhich are currently being carried out by the medical team of this National Health Service hospital”, reads a note on the website of the presidency.
Throughout his two terms in office, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa had several episodes that involved going to the hospital, several of them related to hernias. Two years ago, fainted in a ceremony at the Faculty of Science and Technology, in Caparica, and was taken to Santa Cruz Hospital, where he stayed for four hours. Upon leaving, he explained that it had been a drop in tension caused by a mixture of poor diet and a glass of Moscatel drunk at the event. The doctor and his childhood friend Eduardo Barroso reduced the case to a “bigaio“. The fact that he already had a prior record, said the president of São João, was the factor that weighed most in the team’s decision to immediately embark on the operation.
It was the same Eduardo Barroso who insisted on Marcelo to be operated two inguinal herniasin December 2021. In 2019, it was heart problems that took him to Santa Cruz Hospital for a scheduled intervention: a catheterization. The previous year, he had undergone surgery for an umbilical hernia, which led him to undergo New Year message at homewhere he was recovering from surgery.
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