Brazil's Lula seen walking for first time since surgeries

The Seventy 9-year-earlier leftist leader, known simply as Lula, underwent two operations in Sao Paulo’s Sirio-Libanes Hospital to alleviate and forestall bleeding in his cranium

Reuters

14 December, 2024, 09:55 am

Last modified: 14 December, 2024, 10:03 am

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva posted an Instagram video on Friday the build he would possibly perhaps perhaps well even be viewed strolling for the principle time since being rushed to a effectively being facility earlier this week, offering visible proof of a swish restoration.

The Seventy 9-year-earlier leftist leader, known simply as Lula, underwent two operations in Sao Paulo’s Sirio-Libanes Hospital to alleviate and forestall bleeding in his cranium.

Essentially the most modern effectively being dread suffered by the used baby-kisser, now in his third non-consecutive term as president, has provoked doubts amongst political analysts, with some arguing that succession plans inside Lula’s Workers Receive collectively would possibly perhaps perhaps well be cast into disarray if he can no longer disappear again in 2026.

The president’s spokesman on Thursday shrugged off any concerns that effectively being or age would thwart Lula’s anticipated reelection command.

Within the Instagram video, Lula appears to be like with bandages on the high of his head and on his arm while casually speaking with his wife Rosangela da Silva and doctor Marcos Stavale, who led the surgical operation.

The video became posted a entire lot of hours after a scientific cloak from the effectively being facility asserting that Lula became in “semi-intensive care,” adding that he “remains lucid, is appealing in general and walked thru the hallways.”

Medical doctors operated on Lula for approximately two hours on Tuesday to empty bleeding between his brain and meningeal membrane, which they stated became linked to a tumble at his dwelling in slack October.

The president underwent a second scheme on Thursday, a center meningeal artery embolization, aimed at minimizing the possibility of extra bleeding in the end. He later had a drain removed from his head with out complications.