President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) was at Sírio-Libanês Hospital in São Paulo this Sunday (4) to undergo throat tests. The procedure was a laryngoscopy. According to Roberto Kalil, the doctor accompanying the president, the examination was already scheduled after an operation he had undergone.
According to the doctor, the test results were considered normal. The president has since been discharged from the hospital. On Friday, Lula’s aides reported that he is expected to return to Brasília again this Sunday.
On Monday, a delegation of senior US government officials traveled to Brasilia. Members of the Joe Biden government will meet with Lula, transitional government member Jaques Wagner, and Admiral Flávio Rocha, Strategic Affairs secretary of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government.
On 20 November, Lula was hospitalized in Sírio-libanês. She had another laryngoscopy at that time. She removed a leukoplakia on the left vocal cord, a lesion in the larynx. She was discharged the next day. The procedure did not show neoplasia, that is, a tumor.
In Brasília on Friday, Lula told reporters his throat was “fine”.
“Maybe I’ll do a review to see how it goes, but I think the throat is fine,” he said. “The doctors asked me to stay speechless longer, but honestly, no matter how hard I try, I just can’t.”
Only if they put a sticker in my mouth”
Lula, elected president
source: Noticias
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