The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, He will undergo surgery next Friday to solve a chronic problem in his hip, the Brazilian press reported today.
The surgery will be performed by the team that has been assisting the president for years, belonging to the Syrian Lebanese Hospital of Saint Paulbut at the headquarters that this health center has in Brasilia, reported the Communication Secretariat of the Presidency, according to the CNN Brasil channel.
The decision was made to avoid patient movement in the middle of the postoperative process and to make the president more comfortable.
“It is likely that the pace of the agenda in the coming days will be reduced because the president will undergo hip surgery, scheduled for September 29,” the official Agencia Brasil had anticipated yesterday.
Lula suffers from osteoarthritis of the head of the femur, which implies wear of the cartilage that covers the joints. According to the official communication, the president “has been complaining of pain more frequently”.
The operation you will undergo, called hip arthroplasty, replaces the diseased joint with a prosthesis.
Lula da Silva: what the recovery will be like
The Iintervention It should relieve the pain caused by osteoarthritis, correct deformities and return movement to the joint, thus facilitating daily activities and mobility, specialists explained.
The recovery will last about six weeks but it is expected that Lula will be able to return to the Alvorada Palacethe official residence.
On Tuesday, after his trip to Cuba to attend the meeting of the G77+China group, and when he was in New York to attend the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), the Brazilian delegation announced that Lula would bring forward his return to Brazil the next day. due to fatigue and pain.
On July 26, Lula underwent an infiltration in the hip joint to alleviate the chronic pain that he has been suffering for months, his medical team reported in a statement.
Source: Ambito
