It will go through the lung drainage after contracting pneumonia this week.
Guilherme Di Giacomo, 34, from Sao Paulo, nearly six of whom live in London, UK, has managed to be temporarily discharged from the hospital due to pneumonia, where he was expected to undergo lung surgery to go to the vote this Sunday (2 /10).
He will be transferred from the hospital and undergo lung drainage this week.
“I’ve done my duty as a citizen. I consider myself a very political person and really wanted to vote, so I asked the doctor when I realized I wouldn’t be leaving the hospital until Sunday,” he told BBC News Brazil by phone. West London’s St. From his bed at St. Mary’s Hospital.
“My vote can make one but one difference among millions.”
I felt even more turbulent when I said it was because of the Brazilian elections. It’s like they’re aware of the critical moment we’re in.”
Di Giacomo said he voted for former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) as “the only viable option to defeat Bolsonaro”, but he did not consider himself a member of the PT.
Picture: GUILHERME DI GIACOMO
“I was raised anti-PT. But after the dismissal of former president Dilma Rousseff, my opinion of the PT changed.”
Di Giacomo said that he started to have a high fever with body aches on September 12 and has been hospitalized since September 26. It took him four trips to the hospital before doctors decided to admit him after an exam showed his lung was affected by bacterial pneumonia.
“I was feeling so tired, I couldn’t do the simplest activities”.
He did a rapid test for covid early on, which ruled out the presence of the virus.
More than 34,000 Brazilians residing in the United Kingdom were eligible to vote in this Sunday’s elections. Voting took place in only one place, a school in west London, and voters had to face long queues.
Image: LUIS BARRUCHO/BBC
There was no record of violence, but outside supporter groups of the two main candidates in the presidential race, Lula (PT) and Bolsonaro (PL), concentrated on opposite sides of the street, shouting slogans and cheering.
More than 697,000 voters are eligible to vote abroad this year. They can only vote for the President. The number of voters abroad represents an increase of 39.21% compared to 2018. Voting is held in 181 foreign provinces.
– This text was published at https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-63090409.
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source: Noticias
