The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will return this Thursday to the capital Brasiliaafter undergoing a medical check “extremely satisfying” in San Pablo, where he underwent surgery last week for a hemorrhage in the skull, the government reported.
“Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will return to the capital this Thursday after receiving authorization from doctors to travel by plane“, indicated the Executive.
The progressive leader, who was discharged last Sunday but with the condition that he return to the hospital to undergo an new tomography this Thursday, He remained in his private residence in San Pablo in recent days.where he had meetings with ministers while waiting for authorization to return to Brasilia.
“The results were satisfactory. The hematoma no longer exists“said the ruler’s doctor, Roberto Kalil Filhoin statements he gave to journalists at the door of the Syrian Lebanese Hospital in São Paulo and in reference to the tomography to which Lula was subjected.
Kalil assured that the 79-year-old president He was released to resume all his normal activities.with the only restriction of physical exercisesfrom which he will have to abstain until further notice.
“The president had already been authorized to carry out normal activities and had been meeting with his ministers here in San Pablo, but He is now released to return to Brasilia this Thursday”, he stated.
According to the doctor, The head of state will have to undergo a new control tomography in about 10 dayswhich will be able to take place in Brasilia, since the forecast is that it will remain in the Brazilian capital during both the Christmas and New Year holidays.
After an emergency surgery at the beginning of last week in which doctors drained the intracranial hematoma that was detected after he complained of severe headaches, Lula underwent a second, preventive, complementary intervention three days later. and lower risk.
It was an embolization of the middle meningeal artery to minimize the risk of possible new intracranial hemorrhages.
The bruise was a consequence of the fall that the president suffered on October 19 in the Alvorada Palace, his official residence, when he hit his head in the bathroom and had to receive five stitches in the back of his neck.
(With information from AFP and EFE)
