{"id":378000,"date":"2025-12-29T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378000\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:47:07","slug":"brazilian-ex-president-bolsonaro-treated-for-persistent-hiccups-jair-bolsonaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378000\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian ex-president Bolsonaro treated for persistent hiccups | Jair Bolsonaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Brazil\u2019s former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/jair-bolsonaro\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jair Bolsonaro<\/a> underwent \u201ca phrenic nerve block procedure\u201d on Saturday to treat his persistent hiccups, his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, said on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The doctors treating Bolsonaro said later that they blocked the right phrenic nerve and scheduled a new procedure in 48 hours to block the left one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The phrenic nerve is described in medical literature as a vital nerve originating in the neck that controls the diaphragm, the primary muscle for breathing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIt\u2019s been nine months of struggle and anguish with daily hiccups,\u201d Michelle Bolsonaro said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Bolsonaro\u2019s doctors said the procedure went well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Bolsonaro, 70, had been hospitalised on Wednesday for hernia surgery. In September, he was convicted and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/25\/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-prison\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to 27 years in prison<\/a> by Brazil\u2019s supreme court for plotting a coup to overturn his 2022 election loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">At the request of his defence lawyers, he was authorised by supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes to leave prison for the surgery. In a statement issued while he was in the hospital, Bolsonaro endorsed the 2026 presidential bid of his son, Flavio Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Once discharged from the hospital, Bolsonaro will return to serving his sentence at a federal police jail in the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Jair Bolsonaro has faced health problems since a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/sep\/06\/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-far-right-presidential-candidate-stabbed\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stabbing he suffered in September 2018<\/a>, during a presidential campaign event in the town of Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Bolsonaro underwent various surgeries in the abdominal region after the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">With Reuters and Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s former president Jair Bolsonaro underwent \u201ca phrenic nerve block procedure\u201d on Saturday to treat his persistent hiccups,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-378000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}