Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva underwent a second operation on Thursday morning during this week. According to the doctors, it turned out successfully, reports TASR according to the Reuters agency.
“The president has recovered and is communicating,” said doctor Roberto Kalil. Earlier in the day, the hospital informed that the aim of minimally invasive surgery is stop persistent bleeding on the surface of the brain.
The first operation to stop bleeding in the brain the Brazilian president graduated on Tuesday. After that, he was in a stable condition and conscious. Medical team member Marcos Stavale said that the bleeding occurred between the brain and the dura materwhich adjoins the skull bone, on the left side above the frontal and parietal lobes. Surgeons performed trepanation (a procedure to reduce intracranial pressure); neurological functions were preservedhe added.
Vice President Geraldo Alckmin took over the duties of the President after hospitalization. Lulu (79) was transferred from the capital of Brazil to Sao Paulo because of headaches. According to doctors, they were related to the fall he suffered on October 19 at his residence. The president then canceled his trip to Russia for the BRICS summit. He did not even participate in the UN climate summit (COP29) in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.
Lula himself he described his fall as “serious” and did not appear in public for several days. However, he subsequently participated in the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.
The Brazilian president has had other health problems in the past. In September 2023, he underwent successful hip surgery. In 2011, he diagnosed with throat cancerfrom which he recovered the following year after radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
