Overview
- The ex‑president was admitted to UDI Hospital – Rede D'Or in São Luís on Friday, Oct. 9, after sudden severe abdominal pain and surgeons performed an immediate operation to treat an intestinal obstruction.
- The hospital issued a medical note signed by Dra. Julia Bacelar Barros saying Sarney is stable and being monitored in the intensive care unit with no forecast for discharge.
- Family members confirmed the admission and activated Sarney’s long‑time medical team in São Paulo; cardiologist Roberto Kalil Filho, infectologist David Uip and surgeon Raul Cutait followed the procedure remotely.
- Sarney had two hospital stays in September for pneumonia and was discharged at the end of that month before traveling to Maranhão to vote on Oct. 4 for his daughter Roseana Sarney, who lost her Senate bid.
- Doctors say updates will depend on his postoperative course given his advanced age and recent lung infections, and further bulletins from the hospital or family are expected as his recovery unfolds.