Brazilian President Lula recovering in hospital after emergency brain surgery
SAO PAULO -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was recovering in an intensive care unit on Tuesday, doctors said, after being rushed to a Sao Paulo hospital for emergency surgery to drain a bleed on his brain linked to a fall in October.
Lula, who was in surgery for about two hours, is expected to remain in intensive care for 48 hours and return to the capital Brasilia early next week"if everything goes well," his doctor, Roberto Kalil Filho, told reporters. Lula has curtailed travel in recent months while doctors monitored his recovery from trauma to the back of his head when he fell at his home in late October, requiring stitches.
Vice President Geraldo Alckmin canceled plans in Sao Paulo on Tuesday to return to Brasilia, his aide said, where he will assume Lula's agenda, including a visit from Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.After some five decades of public life, Lula remains a dynamic force on Brazil's political scene, whipping up crowds with his gruff voice and hammering out policy details in personal meetings with lawmakers.
After he left office in 2011 with record popularity, his chosen successor oversaw a deep recession and was impeached amid a sprawling corruption investigation that jailed Lula himself, convicted of accepting bribes. The injury forced him to cancel a trip to Russia for a summit of the BRICS group of major emerging markets in Kazan. Tests in early November showed Lula's condition was stable and he remained active, recently traveling to Montevideo to discuss a Mercosur trade deal.
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