The president is expected to be discharged early next week.

“It was a success. The president is awake, in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit),” said doctor Roberto Kalil.

Marcos Stavale, another member of the hospital team, said that “the procedure was done today to avoid new hemorrhages” and Lula “is cognitively intact.”

The head of the Executive will continue to be observed this Thursday in the Intensive Care Unit and “the drain will be removed at the end of the afternoon,” said Kalil.

For her part, the doctor Ana Helena Germoglio said the president “will remain in the same physical space, what will change will be the continuous monitoring care.”

The former union leader underwent an embolization of the middle meningeal artery, with the purpose of blocking the blood flow in the brain and avoiding future hemorrhages.

According to Kalil, the medical recommendation now is that “he does not exert himself and does not work while he is in the hospital. But he is capable of carrying out any activity,” she said.

Lula felt headaches on Monday night and, after tests carried out in a hospital in Brasilia, he was transferred to the unit in Sao Paulo.

In the early hours of Tuesday, he underwent a trepanation to drain an intracranial hemorrhage.

This operation was the result of a domestic accident suffered on October 19, when he fell in a bathroom at the Alvorada Palace, the official residence in this capital, and hit his head.

On that occasion he had five stitches and underwent imaging tests, which were repeated. He was released to return home but ordered to cancel long trips over the next few weeks, including one to Russia, where he was to participate in the summit of the BRICS, a group formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

A little over a year ago, in September 2023, Lula underwent a total arthroplasty of his right hip, a surgery to replace, with a prosthesis, the worn cartilage in that region of the body.

When the procedure was completed after a schedule, he underwent review exams.

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