Medical Council Opens Inquiry Into Bolsonaro's Care in Federal Custody After Cell Fall

Overview

• The Federal Council of Medicine ordered an immediate sindicância and assigned the regional council in the Federal District to examine the care provided in custody.
• In its note, the council emphasized the attending physician’s autonomy and said Bolsonaro’s complex history requires continuous, multidisciplinary monitoring.
• A Polícia Federal medical report described a light cranial trauma with contusions after an overnight fall and later recorded that he was conscious, oriented and without neurological deficit.
• Supreme Court minister Alexandre de Moraes first denied a hospital transfer as unnecessary and authorized exams at Hospital DF Star on Wednesday morning.
• Allied lawmakers escalated legal pressure, with 22 senators and Deputy Ubiratan Sanderson filing requests to convert his imprisonment to humanitarian house arrest, as a treating surgeon questioned the adequacy of the PF facility.