Lula of Brazil makes his way out of critical care after undergoing surgery

As he heals following two surgeries this week to relieve and stop bleeding in his skull, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva exited intensive care on Friday, according to a medical note from Sao Paulo’s Sirio-Libanes Hospital.

According to his doctors’ letter, Lula, 79, is currently in “semi-intensive care,” but the Marxist leader “remains lucid, is eating normally, and walked through the hallways.”

In order to drain the bleeding between Lula’s brain and meningeal membrane, which they believed was caused by a fall at his house in late October, doctors operated on him for almost two hours on Tuesday.

To reduce the chance of further bleeding, the president had a second treatment on Thursday: an embolization of the middle meningeal artery. Later, a drain was successfully removed from his cranium.