Brazil’s President Lula leaves hospital after brain surgery

President delivers emotional address wearing a panama hat – ‘so you don’t see the dressing on my head’

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has been discharged from hospital after spending six days recovering from emergency surgery to drain a haematoma in his brain.

The announcement – made on Sunday by the medical team at the Sírio-Libanês hospital in São Paulo – was interrupted near the end by the president himself, who entered the room walking alongside the first lady, Rosângela da Silva, known as Janja.

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