Archive photo of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during an event held at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia. Photography: Andre Borges/EFE/Archive.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva successfully underwent hip surgery on Friday, according to international media reports.
Lola is already walking and doing physical therapy in her room after the operation in which she was implanted with a hip prosthesis. Tells an agency Evie.
In addition, the president is also recovering from plastic surgery to remove excess skin on his eyelids, his doctors said Saturday.
“He spent the night stable, walked in the morning and did physical therapy exercises,” said the medical bulletin published today, Saturday, by the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in Brasilia, where the progressive leader must remain until at least Tuesday, according to the media. Spanish.
The memo adds that the president, who will turn 78 in October, is still in the hospital in a private room under the care of medical teams that arrived from São Paulo to conduct interventions. The bulletin does not clarify whether there are actually any exit expectations.
Processes
Lula underwent a “total hip arthroplasty”, that is, replacing the hip joints with titanium prosthetics, to correct problems in the head of the right femur resulting from osteoporosis, which caused him constant pain, each time getting stronger. Details Evie.
The president had been complaining of pain that made mobilization difficult and made him feel bad since the October 2022 election campaign, in which he defeated then-president Jair Bolsonaro.
The head of the medical team that treated him, Roberto Khalil Filho, stated that the president took advantage of the fact that he would receive general anesthesia due to the hip operation to also undergo plastic surgery on the eyelids of both eyes, known as blepharoplasty. To remove excess skin around the eyes.
Recover with work
The progressive leader, who assumed his third term as Brazil’s president in January, will have to remain in hospital until at least Monday or Tuesday, before he leaves the hospital, after which he will have to continue treatment at La Alvorada Palace, his official residence. .
According to what was reported by the Brazilian presidency EvieThe recovery process will require “between three and four weeks,” during which the president will be “able to dispatch his duties normally” and will not need to delegate responsibilities to Vice President Geraldo Alckmin.
However, he will face some movement restrictions during his rest, a time when his doctors will help, and in the first days he will need to walk with the help of a walker, the Spanish agency says.
Once he recovers, Lula will resume his international schedule with a trip scheduled for early November. On that date, he will attend the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), which will be held in the United Arab Emirates.
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