Brazil President Lula discharged from hospital following surgery
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been discharged from hospital after receiving emergency surgery for a brain bleed, doctors have revealed. The 79-year-old appeared with his medical team at a news conference held at Sírio-Libanês hospital in São Paulo.
“This here is not an interview, this is simply a session to say thanks. To thank, firstly, God, who has looked after me in a very generous manner,” he said.
Lula was taken to hospital after complaining of a severe headache. There, doctors performed a craniotomy on the president. That is a procedure where part of the bone in the skull is surgically removed to treat the bleed and relieve the pressure, before the bone is replaced.
The brain bleed, or intracranial haemorrhage, was caused by a blow to the head after Lula fell in his bathroom at the presidential residence in October, a hospital statement said. It was not unusual, the doctors said, for a blow to the head cause issues that only appear “months later.”
“Thank you very much for the prayers,” Lula added. “And for those who only have hate, you’re forgiven. I am here, alive, whole, and with more desire to work.”
Doctors said the president was in a stable condition after the surgery and was conscious. Lula was “lucid” and conversing with medical staff, according to the doctors. They added that he had not sustained any injury to the brain nor had he been experiencing any after-effects from the surgery.
Asked when he would return to the capital, doctors said that if all goes well, Lula could be back in Brasilia “next week.”
While Lula was being treated, Vice-President Geraldo Alckmin took on some of his commitments.
Lula has been in power in Brazil since January last year, narrowly beating Jair Bolsonaro in a hard fought election campaign where he joked that he had “the energy of a 30-year-old.”
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