AFP, Spuntik and Xinhua
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, p. 24
Sao Paulo. The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 79, is stable and without consequencesafter having undergone emergency surgery in Sao Paulo early yesterday morning for an intracranial hemorrhage, his medical team reported.
The procedure, which lasted about two hours and took place no complicationsallowed drain hematoma from brain bleedingDr. Roberto Kalil explained in a press conference.
Lula will be there for the next 48 hours under observation in the intensive care unit of the Syrian-Lebanese hospital, and will remain there until next week.
The doctors explained that the president felt unwell and had a headache on Monday, so they performed an MRI that showed a intracranial hemorrhagea consequence of the fall he suffered a month and a half ago.
The bleeding was between the brain and the dura mater membrane.detailed neurosurgeon Marcos Stavale, while neurologist Rogerio Tuma added that it is a common complication that can occur mainly in older people.
The president’s wife, Rosangela Janja da Silva, 58, sent a message of calm about Lula’s evolution and thanked him for the demonstrations of affection.
After a successful procedure, anguish gave way to tranquility and the certainty that, with the dedication of the medical team and with the faith and love of the people, he will soon be back to work; therefore, be calmJanja published on his social networks.
After falling in the bathroom of his residence on October 19 and hitting the back of his head, Lula received stitches and periodic evaluations for several weeks.
On medical recommendation, as a result of that accident he canceled his trip to Russia, where he was to participate in the BRICS summit. He also did not attend the United Nations climate meeting COP29 in Azerbaijan.
The ruler maintained his commitments, although he worked from the official residence for several days.
For now, Lula will not need to take leave, said the Minister of Communication, Paulo Pimenta, on Gaúcha radio. Although the Brazilian Constitution establishes that the vice president must replace the head of the Executive in case of impediment to govern, it does not clarify who or how should evaluate their capacity to fulfill their functions.
The presidents of Colombia, Gustavo Petro; Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro; Bolivia, Luis Arce; Panama, José Raúl Mulino; Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega; Peru, Dina Boluarte, and Spain, Pedro Sánchez, among others, expressed their best wishes to the Brazilian president for a speedy recovery.
Lula has had health problems that have forced him to slow down his intense work pace. In January 2010, during his second term, he suffered a hypertension crisis attributed to stress and fatigue, and was hospitalized in Recife, which caused him to stop smoking after 50 years.
In 2011, after leaving office, he was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and received chemotherapy and radiotherapy, managing to fully recover the following year, and last year he underwent hip surgery to relieve pain due to osteoarthritis.
