Brazil’s Bolsonaro says ‘fine’ now but lost memory after fall
Sao Paulo, Dec 25 (AFP/APP): Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro temporarily lost his memory after hitting his head in a fall at his official residence, he said in an interview on Tuesday. The 64-year-old slipped Monday night in a bathroom at the Alvorada Palace, the latest health scare for the Brazilian leader who was wounded in a knife attack in September 2018 while campaigning for the presidency. “At that moment I lost memory,” he said of the fall. “The following day, this morning, I managed to get back a lot of things and now I am fine,” Bolsonaro said in a telephone interview with Band television. “I didn’t know, for example, what I did yesterday.” Bolsonaro spent the night at the Armed Forces Hospital in Brasilia under observation and was released Tuesday “with the recommendation that he rest,” his office said in a statement. A cranial CT scan detected no anomalies, the statement said. “I slipped and fell on my back. It was a nasty enough blow but I’m going to take care of myself,” Bolsonaro said in the interview. His health has been a subject of concern ever since he became president on January 1. He has undergone four surgeries … Continue reading Brazil’s Bolsonaro says ‘fine’ now but lost memory after fall
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