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, APA reports citing Reuters.
The 79-year-old Lula was in stable condition and speaking and eating normally after the successful operation at Sirio-Libanes Hospital, doctors said at a press conference.
The bleeding that Lula experienced occurred between his brain and meningeal membrane, said the doctors, who ruled out any injury to the brain or neurological complications.
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.
The emergency surgery added to health concerns about the aging president, a standard bearer of the Latin American left who is halfway through his third non-consecutive term.
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