President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva underwent new head imaging tests, this Monday (27), and was fully released to carry out his usual life routine, such as traveling and physical activities. Lula underwent a new control tomography at the Sírio-Libanês Hospital, in Brasília, after the procedures to which he was subjected at the beginning of December, in the hospital unit in São Paulo, due to the domestic accident he suffered, in October 2024.
“The examination shows a further reduction in the collection [hematoma]compatible with progressive improvement in the condition”, says the medical bulletin. The president remains under the supervision of the medical team, under the care of his personal doctor, Roberto Kalil Filho, and the President’s doctor Ana Helena Germoglio.
On October 19, 2024, Lula fell in the bathroom of his official residence, hit his head and needed five stitches in the back of his head. During the weeks that followed, he had several imaging tests that showed a small intracranial hemorrhage and was under monitoring.
Until, on December 9, the president felt headaches and, after tests carried out at Sírio-Libanês, in Brasília, he was transferred to São Paulo, where he underwent emergency surgery, called trepanation, to drain the hematoma. . He also underwent an endovascular procedure – embolization of the middle meningeal artery – to reduce the risk of new bleeding forming in the region between the skull bone and the brain.
On December 15, Lula was discharged from hospital and on the 19th of the same month he returned to Brasíliawith travel and physical exercise restricted.
