BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been hospitalized with pneumonia and will remain there a second night for more tests, a spokesman said yesterday.
Rousseff was taken to Sao Paulo’s Sirio Libanes hospital on Saturday after several days of strong flu symptoms, presidential palace spokesman Rodrigo Baena said.
Brazil’s first female president and a cancer survivor, Rousseff canceled her participation at the World Economic Forum in Rio de Janeiro on Friday because she felt ill. She had been expected to remain in Brasilia during the weekend.
Doctors brought forward a medical check-up scheduled for next Friday as Rousseff’s flu advanced, the hospital said in a statement. Rousseff is being administered antibiotics, it added.
Rousseff revealed in April 2009 that she was undergoing treatment to remove an axillar lymphoma, a cancer in the lymphatic system, that was in early stage at the time. She submitted to curative chemotherapy treatment for four months.
