(10 Dec 2024)
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Sao Paulo, Brazil – 10 December 2024
1. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s medical team arriving for news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Roberto Kalil, member of President Lula da Silva’s medical team:
“During the night, the president was transferred to the Sírio-Libanês hospital in this unit (in São Paulo) and underwent surgery to drain the hematoma from the bleeding on the brain. The president evolved well, he arrived from surgery practically awake, was intubated, is now stable, talking normally, eating and will be under observation for the next few days.”
3. Wide of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rogerio Tuma, member of President Lula da Silva’s medical team:
“What happens is that the person has a fall, sometimes they don’t even remember, and the bruise can appear months later. As the president was well monitored with routine exams, we saw the hematoma decreasing. Yesterday, complaining of a headache, he repeated the CT scan and we noticed that the hematoma had increased.”
5. Wide of news conference
6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rogerio Tuma, member of President Lula da Silva’s medical team:
“In fact, the hematoma is between the bone and the brain. So, there is no damage to the brain. The promptness of the procedure is so that the hematoma does not compress the brain. So, he has no sequelae, he is free from any compression on the injury.”
Reporter: “But there’s still a hematoma?”
Tuma: "The hematoma has been drained."
Reporter: "Completely?"
Tuma: "Completely."
7. Medical team leaving news conference
STORYLINE:
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is conscious and recovering in an intensive-care unit after undergoing unplanned surgery for an intracranial hemorrhage, doctors from the Sirio-Libanes hospital in Sao Paulo told journalists on Tuesday.
The procedure was performed after the 79-year-old leftist leader suffered complications after a fall at home in October, doctors said.
“He arrived from surgery practically awake, was intubated, is now stable, talking normally, eating and will be under observation for the next few days,” Dr. Roberto Kalil told a news conference.
Doctors said the president is expected to return to the capital Brasilia at the beginning of next week.
In the meantime, he will not be working, they said.
In the early hours of Tuesday, Lula traveled from Brasilia to be treated 1,000 kilometers south (620 miles) in Sao Paulo.
Rosângela da Silva – Brazil’s first lady also known as Janja – travelled with Lula to Sao Paulo and is by his side, doctors said.
Lula canceled a trip to Russia for a BRICS summit after the accident.
It left him with a cut visible on the back of his head, slightly above his neck.
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