The president appeared wearing a hat, the same one worn in an interview with journalists at the Sírio-Libanês hospital; Lula was discharged this Sunday (Dec 15)
The president (PT) spoke exclusively to “Fantastic” after being discharged from the Sírio-Libanês hospital, in São Paulo, this Sunday (Dec 15, 2024). It was the 8th time that the PT member spoke exclusively to PT vehicles or programs. Globe Group in 2024. The objective was for him to explain how he felt after the surgical procedures he underwent.
The president has undergone 2 head procedures since December 10, 2024: a cranial trepanation and a middle meningeal artery embolization. In the last surgery, 2 holes were made with a surgical drill in Lula’s skull. The holes are about 1 cm to 1.5 cm each in diameter.
Lula gave the interview wearing a hat, the same one he wore in an interview with journalists in the morning. In his statement upon being discharged, the Chief Executive explained the reason for using the accessory: “I don’t want you to see [os curativos] because I’m a theoretically handsome guy, but in practice, my head is making me a little ugly.”.
See photos of the moment the president shows off his bandages during the interview:
CHRONOLOGY OF THE LULA OPERATION
Below, 79-year-old Lula’s trip to São Paulo (approximate times):
- 9.dez.2024 – Lula feels uncomfortable and leaves a meeting on parliamentary amendments with the presidents of the Chamber, (PP-AL), and the Senate, (PSD-MG) held at Palácio do Planalto, in Brasília. The PT member informs his personal doctor, Roberto Kalil Filho, around 15h who has headaches;
- 9.dez.2024 – the president goes to the Sírio-Libanês Hospital in the federal capital and undergoes 2 tests, a CT scan and an MRI. They decide to take the PT member to the São Paulo unit;
- 9.dez.2024 – the presidential plane with Lula on board takes off from Brasília at 23h08;
- 10.dez.2024 – lands in São Paulo at 0h24;
- 10.dez.2024 – Lula is undergoing surgery (understand how it went in the infographic below) which lasted around 3 hours;
- 10.dez.2024 – to the 4hthe president’s health status is announced;
- 10.dez.2024 – the president’s doctor informs that Lula is in the ICU (intensive treatment unit). President in the brain and his neurological functions are preserved;
- 11.dez.2024 – statement released to 12h that the president remains with a drain to prevent further bleeding in the head, but had a good immediate postoperative evolution;
- 11.dez.2024 – after saying that, the medical team informs the 16h30 than Lula on Thursday (Dec 12), at 7am, to stop the flow in an artery that irrigates the membrane that covers the brain, the meninges.
- 12.dez.2024 – Lula undergoes the procedure around 7h. Shortly after 8hdoctor Roberto Kalil Filho that the procedure was successful;
- 12.dez.2024 – the medical team claims that Lula is “” and that at the beginning of the week of December 16;
- 12.dez.2024 – to the Poder360Roberto Kalil Filho that, if Lula bleeds again, a bigger operation is on the radar;
- 12.dez.2024 – in recovery, the president of children and grandchildren and for minister Rui Costa (Casa Civil) to be updated on the government’s agenda in Congress;
- 12.dez.2024 – new medical bulletin 19h states that Lula, but remains in the ICU;
- 13.dez.2024 – doctors in the morning, at 11:20 a.m.that the PT member left the ICU and is now under semi-intensive care;
- 13.dez 2024 – Lula in the Sírio-Libanês corridor alongside doctor Marcos Stavale, neurosurgeon responsible for the cranial trepanation on Tuesday (Dec 10), in a video published on social media. It’s possible in the PT member’s mind.
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