Brazilian President Lula (Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva) underwent surgery for an “intracranial hemorrhage”. This craniotomy would have been intended to drain a subdural hematoma linked to a fall at his home on October 19, according to a medical note published by the Syrian-Lebanese hospital in Sao Paulo and taken up by the government on Tuesday.
Following this fall, he notably had to give up going to the Brics summit in Russia at the end of October, his doctors having advised him against long air travel. He participated in this summit by videoconference. The medical report then specified that he could continue his other activities normally.
Monitored in the intensive care unit
Lula went to the Brasilia unit of the Syrian-Lebanese hospital on Monday evening “to carry out imaging after feeling a headache. Magnetic resonance showed intracranial hemorrhage,” the facility said.
He was then “transferred to the Sao Paulo unit of the Syrian-Lebanese hospital, where he underwent a craniotomy for drainage of the hematoma,” according to the text. “The operation took place without complications,” the establishment said in a statement published on the Brazilian president’s Instagram account.
Lula is “doing well”. He “is being monitored in the intensive care unit,” the statement said. A press conference is planned for the day.
