Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was discharged from hospital on Monday after undergoing two brain surgeries this week to prevent bleeding in his brain, his medical team said, quoted by Reuters and BTA.
The 79-year-old leftist leader also made his first public statement during a news conference from the hospital, and doctors said he would continue to recover at his home in Sao Paulo.
In his brief statement, an optimistic Lula said he was eager to return to work as soon as possible and that his medical team had given him the green light to do so, despite advising him to avoid long international flights and exercise.
„Here I am, "I am unharmed," Lula said from the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in Sao Paulo, where he was being treated. "I am cured, I just have to take care of myself," he added.
Medics added that the president would undergo a CT scan on Tuesday, a medical procedure that would give them detailed information about his condition before allowing him to return to the capital, Brasilia.