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Monday December 16, 2024

Lula discharged from hospital

By AFP
December 16, 2024
Brazils President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks to reporters, accompanied by his wife Rosangela Janja da Silva, after being discharged from Hospital Sirio-Libanes in Sao Paulo. —AFP
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks to reporters, accompanied by his wife Rosangela "Janja" da Silva, after being discharged from Hospital Sirio-Libanes in Sao Paulo. —AFP

BRASI­LIA: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was discharged Sunday from a Sao Paulo hospital following emergency surgery last week to treat an intracranial hemorrhage.

“I am here in one piece... returning home,” the 79-year-old leftist leader said as he made a surprise appearance at a news conference by his medical team at Hospital Sirio-Libanes.

Lula had successful surgery Tuesday in which doctors drilled through his skull to relieve pressure that built up after a blow to the head in October, when he fell in a bathroom in his presidential residence.