Lula announces that he will undergo hip surgery

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, announced on Tuesday that plans to undergo hip surgery in the “next few months” to end constant pain that makes him, he said, “moody.”

“I have made a decision: I am going to have hip surgery in the next few months. The procedure is very simple,” the 77-year-old leftist president wrote on Twitter, renamed X.

Lula addressed the issue during his weekly program “Conversation with the President”, in which he compared himself to a soccer player “who does not want to tell the coach that he is in pain so as not to go to the bench.”

But the ex-metallurgical worker acknowledged that it is time for a medical intervention, pointing out that he has “a problem in the head of the femur for a long time” and that he wakes up every day with nagging pain that “makes him cranky.” “I want to do the surgery because I don’t want to continue in pain,” he added.

Lula explained that the procedure is not urgent and did not give a date for his appointment with the operating room, but In your opinion, the best time would be October.after a busy high-level agenda inside and outside the country.

In August, he will host a meeting of Amazonian countries, before traveling to a BRICS summit in South Africa. In September he is due to attend the G20 in India and the UN General Assembly in New York. “I have a lot of important things to do and I don’t want to stop.” Lula said.

Since taking up his third term in January, Lula, who claims to exercise regularly, has displayed determined vigor, with visits to several Brazilian states and a busy international schedule.

At the end of March alone, he had to postpone a state visit to China for a few days due to pneumonia. His health has been a cause for concern in recent years. Last November, Lula underwent a procedure to remove a lesion in his larynx.

The president, who often has a hoarse voice, was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer in 2011 and a tumor was removed. Since then, medical results have shown complete remission of the cancer.