Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was released from hospital on Saturday the day after a long-planned procedure to remove a kidney stone.
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"The president left the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo this afternoon at 1:30 p.m.
(local time),
"
announced a brief statement from the Ministry of Communications, signed by the president's medical team.
Friday, a previous press release had indicated that
"the operation, which lasted 1h30, took place without complications and the stone was completely removed"
.
The far-right leader should be able to resume normal activities next week.
He had already announced in early September that he had to be operated on to extract a calculus
"as large as a black bean"
.
Jair Bolsonaro, 65, has had his fifth operation in two years.
The previous four were linked to the knife attack he suffered in 2018 during his election campaign, with multiple intestinal perforations.
In July, he was infected with Covid-19, but eventually recovered without experiencing serious symptoms.
That hasn't deterred him from continuing to regularly tackle containment measures which he says cause more economic damage than the virus itself.
