Brazil's Lula discharged after cataract surgery / Photo: Sergio Lima - AFP
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Brazil's Lula discharged after cataract surgery
Brazil's 80-year-old president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was released from hospital Friday after undergoing cataract surgery on his left eye.
The veteran leader's treatment passed "without incident", Brazil's presidency said in a statement.
Lula left Brasilia's CBV Hospital de Olhos in a convoy shortly after 10 am local time, AFP observed.
Lula is expected to spend Friday and the weekend at a presidential ranch on the outskirts of Brasilia and "will return to his usual activities on Monday," aides said.
Lula has vowed to run for reelection this October if his health allows it.
He is already the only Brazilian president to ever serve three terms in office and has shown few signs of slowing down.
He recently returned from Panama where he took part in a forum dubbed the Latin American Davos, and plans to travel to India, South Korea and Washington in the coming months.
The leftist leader underwent surgery in 2024 for a brain bleed -- an intracranial hemorrhage -- caused by a domestic accident.
The Brazilian Society of Ophthalmology cites cataracts as the main cause of blindness, though reversible. They are often linked to aging.
G.M.Castelo--PC