SAO PAULO, Brazil — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was discharged Sunday from a Sao Paulo hospital following emergency surgery to treat an intracranial hemorrhage.
'I am here in one piece... returning home calmly,' 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.He later smiled and waved to reporters as he left the hospital. 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 in the capital Brasilia.
He addressed reporters while wearing a fedora-style hat that covered signs of his operations, accompanied by his wife Rosangela 'Janja' da Silva.Lula's medical emergency started when he complained last Monday of a headache while in Brasilia.'I felt like my steps were slowing down, my eyes were red and I was very sleepy,' he said.
Lula Discharged From Hospital Following Emergency Surgery
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