The President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has been transferred to the hospital this Wednesday after suffering a faint during a visit to the Faculty of Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon, on the Costa de Caparica, near the capital.
The Portuguese leader has been transported in a fire ambulance to the Hospital de Santa Cruz, in Oeiras, “as a precaution” to perform medical testsas reported by the local media ‘Correio da manhã’, citing a statement from the Presidency of the Republic at 3:45 p.m.
“The president of the Republic have felt unwell after a visit to the University of New Lisbon and went to the Hospital de Santa Cruz as a precaution,” read the statement collected by the Portuguese newspaper.
Rebelo de Sousa was initially treated at the university by a medicalized vehicle from the San Francisco Javier Hospital. The toilets who examined the president in the first place attributed the fainting to the fact that had eaten little and was dizzy, nauseated and extremely tired.
The head of the Civil House -a consultation, analysis, information and technical support service for the President of the Republic-, Fernando Frutuoso de Melo, has explained to the journalists that Rebelo de Sousa “in good spirits”.
“He has passed out, but has quickly come to his senses. He didn’t even want us to cancel the afternoon agenda“, he has detailed. And he has added: «he has called Me with the mobile from the ambulance. The medical team is the same one that operated on him in 2019 », he added.
