“Everything is fixed, I’m fine,” Brazil’s president-elect Lula said on Telegram on Monday. The day before, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 77, underwent surgery on his larynx upon his return from his trip to Egypt and Portugal, the hospital where he underwent surgery in Sao Paulo announced Monday.
He was released from the hospital Monday morning and is now “home.”
The medical bulletin said the operation had “removed leukoplakia from her left vocal cord”, white spots detected during medical examinations carried out on November 12, three days before her trip abroad.
A rather fragile health
Doctors have ruled out the presence of a new tumor in Lula, who suffered from laryngeal cancer in 2011, shortly after finishing his first two presidential terms (2003-2010).
He recovered the following year, after undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy sessions.
For his first trip abroad since his election against outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro on November 30, Lula went to COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, then Lisbon. He returned to Brazil on Saturday.
A smoker for more than fifty years, he had given up cigarettes in 2010, after being hospitalized for hypertension.
Throughout his harrowing campaign against Jair Bolsonaro, his voice, already naturally hoarse, became hoarser, sometimes barely audible.
Source: BFM TV
