Lula will undergo surgery on Friday and will rest for three to four weeks

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaHe will undergo surgery next Friday to correct some problems with the head of his femur and will rest for three to four weeks, although he will be able to leave normally, according to official sources.

Lula, who will turn 78 next October, will be subjected to a “total hip arthroplasty”, a procedure for which you will receive general anesthesia and which will last “some hours”, according to information provided to journalists by spokespersons for the Presidency.

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The operation will be in Sírio-Libanês Hospital in Brasiliain which Lula will have to stay for around five days, according to doctors’ predictions, and then continue his recovery in Alvorada Palacehis official residence in the capital.

The recovery process will requirebetween three and four weeks“, period in which, however, the president”I will be able to send normally”and will not need to delegate responsibilities to the vice president, Geraldo Alckmin.

According to sources, he will have some mobility restrictions while he rests, during which time he will be assisted by his doctors.

Lula began to feel severe pain in his hip in the middle of last year, in the middle of the electoral campaign that led him to win the elections last October, in which he defeated the then president, JairBolsonaro.

The progressive leader himself commented this Monday on the procedure to which he will be subjected, which he assured that it responds to a need for “to care” of health.

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“I want to play football again, run, do gymnastics“, things that cannot be done today”for the pain“, he said.

“It hurts when I get up, it hurts when I sleep, it hurts when I’m standing“He added, to confess that he only feels a little”to fear” of anesthesia.

After recovering, Lula intends to resume his international agenda with a trip scheduled for the beginning of November, when he will participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2023 (COP28), which will be held in United Arab Emiratesand which will include an official visit to the Germany.

Source: Elcomercio

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