⁍ Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is scheduled to undergo surgery to remove a bladder stone on Friday.

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⁍ Bolsonaro will check in to a hospital in Sao Paulo on Thursday to prepare for the procedure.

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⁍ He will be hospitalized until Saturday or Sunday at the latest, said Leandro Echenique, one of several doctors on Bolsonaro’s medical team.

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– Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is scheduled to undergo surgery Friday to remove a bladder stone, one of several doctors on his medical team tells Reuters. “It is something much simpler and more common than other surgeries,” says Leandro Echenique, a doctor on Bolsonaro’s medical team. Bolsonaro, a 63-year-old former Army captain who rose to power on a wave of anti-establishment sentiment, has had multiple surgeries since he was stabbed during a campaign event in 2018. “His stomach is very difficult to open, to take out the intestine and other organs because of multiple surgeries,” says another doctor on Bolsonaro’s medical team. “It’s something simple that is a bit more difficult because of his history, but he did a checkup with us last month and his health is perfect.”