Brazilian President Lula da Silva, who this Friday underwent a hip operation planned and announced a month ago, took the opportunity to also undergo plastic surgery on his eyelids, which had been kept secret. Only after the completion of the surgical procedures did it become known about the cosmetic operation, which was confirmed with some embarrassment by the doctors who operated on the president.
When asked about the delay in the hip surgery, which was estimated at two and a half to three hours but took five, doctors explained that Lula had undergone not one, but two surgeries. The second was blepharoplasty, which involves removing excess skin that accumulates on the eyelids over the years and makes a person even older and tired.
Doctors had to reveal the plastic surgery at the insistence of journalists, who were already speculating about a possible complication of the only previously announced operation – hip surgery. According to doctors, plastic surgery was not announced because the decision was made only at the last minute, before Lula was given general anesthesia.
At a press conference they held shortly after the surgical procedures, carried out at the luxurious Cirio Libanes hospital in Brasilia, doctors said that both operations went smoothly, without complications, and that Lula responded very well to general anesthesia. Thanks to how positively everything went, after the operation Lulu was not sent to the intensive care unit, as announced, but to a regular hospital apartment.
In total, a multidisciplinary team of 20 people, including doctors of various specialties and other health professionals, was sent from the headquarters of the hospital group, Hospital Sirio Libanês in São Paulo, specifically for the operation on Lula in Brasilia. Lula, 77 (he turns 78 in October), is expected to remain in hospital until Tuesday, when he will then have to spend another three weeks recovering at the official residence of the Brazilian president, the Palacio da Alvorada, from where he will issue orders during that period. .
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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