Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will undergo another operation on Thursday to “minimise the risk of future bleeding” in an area under his skull that received emergency surgery this week, his doctor said.
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The 79-year-old president’s doctor, Roberto Kalil, told journalists on Wednesday outside the Hospital Sirio-Libanes where Lula is convalescing that the procedure was an “expected” follow-up to the surgery carried out on Tuesday.
He said Thursday’s operation, estimated to last an hour, would involve inserting a catheter in Lula’s femoral artery, and added that the procedure was “relatively simple and low-risk”.
The hospital said in a medical bulletin: “As part of his treatment, complementary to the surgery, an endovascular procedure (embolisation of the middle meningeal artery) will be carried out tomorrow morning.”
The facility added that Lula was otherwise well.
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On Wednesday, it said, he “carried out physiotherapy, walked and received family visits”.
