Ultraje a Rigor bassist undergoes new surgery ten months after being shot in the head

Rinaldo Oliveira Amaral, the bassist for the band Ultraje a Rigor known as Mingau, underwent new surgery this Saturday (13), ten months after being shot in the head. He had a prosthesis fitted to help reconstruct his skull.

The procedure, called cranioplasty, lasted about five hours and, according to Mingau’s advisors, he is doing well. The bassist is expected to take up to three weeks to recover and, after this period, a new evaluation will be made by the medical team that is monitoring the musician.

Mingau is under the care of neurosurgeon Hugo Sterman Neto. “The technique we use is individualized. In a mold with a negative impression of the defect, we place PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate), which is an acrylic. After drying, we fix the plate with titanium screws,” explained the doctor in a statement released by the musician’s team.

Mingau was shot in the head in September 2023, when the car he was in was hit by projectiles during a shootout in the Ilha das Cobras neighborhood, in Paraty, on the south coast of Rio de Janeiro. Since then, the musician spent four months hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Hospital São Luiz, in São Paulo. In January, he was discharged and received treatment at home, but was hospitalized again after an infection.