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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was in intensive care on Tuesday recovering from emergency surgery to remove a bleed on his brain connected with a fall at home in October.
The 79-year-old leftwing leader, known as Lula, underwent a craniotomy procedure to drain a haematoma after an MRI scan showed an “intracranial haemorrhage”, according to a medical note shared by his government.
Lula was “well” and being monitored at the Sírio-Libanês hospital in São Paulo after the operation, which was completed without complications, said the medical bulletin. It said the injury was linked to a fall in his bathroom on October 19.
There was no current expectation that the president would take formal leave from his role, said Brazil’s social communications minister, Paulo Pimenta.
Even so, the episode will raise questions about Lula’s state of…