Lula travels to São Paulo for routine tests at Sírio-Libanês
According to Secom, the tests had been scheduled for after the election; the president is expected to return to Brasília on Wednesday.
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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) flew to São Paulo on Tuesday afternoon (3), where he was to undergo routine tests at Sírio-Libanês Hospital, g1 reported. According to the Presidency's Communications Secretariat (Secom), the tests had already been scheduled for after the election.
Lula is 81. His medical team is coordinated by cardiologist Roberto Kalil Filho and physician Ana Helena Germoglio. The president is expected to return to Brasília on the morning of Wednesday (4) and resume his schedule as normal.
g1 recalls that, in a video released on Monday (1st), Lula said he spent the previous week without a voice and that he "did a lot" to recover. The medical team denied that the hospital visit is related to the hoarseness.
In the same video, the president criticized the circulation of false news about social programs and said none of them will be abolished.
The president is being monitored at Sírio-Libanês. In March, his annual check-up showed normal results, and in May he returned to the hospital to follow the progress of procedures performed in April, with a bulletin of "satisfactory progress."