<p>Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is suffering from an "intestinal obstruction" that may need "emergency surgery," the government said on Wednesday after the far-right leader was admitted to hospital due to persistent hiccups.</p>.<p>The 66-year-old far-right leader had been complaining publicly since last week about suffering from the hiccups following July 3 surgery on a dental implant.</p>.<p>Bolsonaro was first taken to a military hospital in the capital Brasilia but will now be transferred to Sao Paulo for more tests, the communication ministry said in a statement.</p>.<p>It did not reveal when or which hospital he would be taken to.</p>.<p>"He is in good spirits and feels well," the presidency had said earlier in the day.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/brazils-bolsonaro-taken-to-hospital-over-hiccups-1008642.html" target="_blank">Read | Brazil's Bolsonaro taken to hospital over hiccups</a></strong></p>.<p>Bolsonaro was examined in Brasilia by Antonio Macedo, who has operated on the president several times since he was stabbed in the abdomen in 2018 while on the campaign trail.</p>.<p>If it is confirmed he needs an operation, it would be the seventh since he was stabbed by a former member of the Socialist and Freedom Party (PSOL), a group that broke away from the Workers' Party (PT) of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is eyeing a run against Bolsonaro next year.</p>.<p>"Yet another challenge, a consequence of the assassination attempt carried out by a former member of PSOL, the left-wing arm of the PT, to prevent the victory of millions of Brazilians that wanted change in Brazil," Bolsonaro wrote on Twitter.</p>.<p>"A cruel attack not just against me but against democracy."</p>.<p>Speaking to a local radio station last week, Bolsonaro had said: "This happened to me before, maybe due to the medicine I'm taking, I have hiccups 24 hours a day."</p>.<p>On Tuesday night, a tired-looking Bolsonaro had complained to supporters outside his official residence in Brasilia about the problem.</p>.<p>"People, my voice has gone. If I start talking a lot, the hiccups return ... they already have," he said.</p>.<p>Bolosonaro also contracted Covid-19 last year although his symptoms were mild and he did not need hospital treatment.</p>
<p>Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is suffering from an "intestinal obstruction" that may need "emergency surgery," the government said on Wednesday after the far-right leader was admitted to hospital due to persistent hiccups.</p>.<p>The 66-year-old far-right leader had been complaining publicly since last week about suffering from the hiccups following July 3 surgery on a dental implant.</p>.<p>Bolsonaro was first taken to a military hospital in the capital Brasilia but will now be transferred to Sao Paulo for more tests, the communication ministry said in a statement.</p>.<p>It did not reveal when or which hospital he would be taken to.</p>.<p>"He is in good spirits and feels well," the presidency had said earlier in the day.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/brazils-bolsonaro-taken-to-hospital-over-hiccups-1008642.html" target="_blank">Read | Brazil's Bolsonaro taken to hospital over hiccups</a></strong></p>.<p>Bolsonaro was examined in Brasilia by Antonio Macedo, who has operated on the president several times since he was stabbed in the abdomen in 2018 while on the campaign trail.</p>.<p>If it is confirmed he needs an operation, it would be the seventh since he was stabbed by a former member of the Socialist and Freedom Party (PSOL), a group that broke away from the Workers' Party (PT) of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is eyeing a run against Bolsonaro next year.</p>.<p>"Yet another challenge, a consequence of the assassination attempt carried out by a former member of PSOL, the left-wing arm of the PT, to prevent the victory of millions of Brazilians that wanted change in Brazil," Bolsonaro wrote on Twitter.</p>.<p>"A cruel attack not just against me but against democracy."</p>.<p>Speaking to a local radio station last week, Bolsonaro had said: "This happened to me before, maybe due to the medicine I'm taking, I have hiccups 24 hours a day."</p>.<p>On Tuesday night, a tired-looking Bolsonaro had complained to supporters outside his official residence in Brasilia about the problem.</p>.<p>"People, my voice has gone. If I start talking a lot, the hiccups return ... they already have," he said.</p>.<p>Bolosonaro also contracted Covid-19 last year although his symptoms were mild and he did not need hospital treatment.</p>