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São Paulo Mayor Bruno Covas (PSDB) needed to be hospitalized on Wednesday (13), in São Paulo. He had been experiencing abdominal pain since Tuesday and went to Syrian Lebanon for a clinical evaluation, which showed colitis, an inflammation of the colon, the central part of the large intestine.
That was what initial tests indicated, according to the medical report released by the hospital. “The patient is clinically very well, under medical observation while waiting for the completion of more tests,” says the text.
Covas, 40, is undergoing treatment to contain cancer in the digestive system, between the esophagus and stomach, discovered in the past. He is accompanied by medical teams coordinated by David Uip, Roberto Kalil Filho, Artur Katz and Tulio Eduardo Flesch Pfiffer.
Despite the problems, the mayor continues to exercise his activity. In a recent interview with sheetHe affirmed that the difficulties that São Paulo faced in the pandemic of the new coronavirus have not prevented its immunotherapy sessions.
“I keep going. The eight chemotherapy sessions removed two of the three tumors. There was one left, I changed the treatment. After three sessions, I did a new battery of tests and a fourth session. She doesn’t have the speed of chemotherapy, but the doctors were very happy with the result, ”he said.