SAO PAULO: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva left intensive care on Friday (Dec 13,) Sao Paulo’s Sirio-Libanes Hospital mentioned in a medical word, as he recovers from two operations earlier this search to alleviate bleeding and stop any extra in his cranium.
The 79-year-old Lula is now in “semi-intensive care,” his docs mentioned within the word, including that the leftist chief “stays lucid, is consuming usually and walked via the hallways.”
Docs operated on Lula for about two hours on Tuesday to empty bleeding between his mind and meningeal membrane, which they mentioned was linked to a fall at his residence in late October.
The president underwent a second process on Thursday, a center meningeal artery embolization, geared toward minimizing the danger of future bleeding. He later had a drain faraway from his head with out issues.
Lula da Silva declared he was “robust and regular” Friday, in a video of him strolling round unassisted after emergency surgical procedure earlier this week.
“Please relaxation assured. I’m robust and regular! I’m strolling the halls… speaking quite a bit, consuming nicely and, quickly, able to return residence and proceed working and taking good care of each Brazilian household,” he wrote on X and different social media.
The video included within the put up confirmed him strolling a hospital hall together with his neurosurgeon, Marcos Stavale.
The president, sporting blue informal put on, sports activities a bandage on prime of his head the place the surgical procedure occurred.
Within the accompanying message, Lula thanked the general public for the prayers and phrases from well-wishers, handed on by his spouse, and mentioned he appeared ahead to “many conferences in Brazil and around the globe” within the coming yr.
“Thanks in your affection and for all of the dedication of the medical crew. The love I obtain retains me all the time prepared to maneuver on!” he wrote.