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Lula resumes work in Sao Paulo after leaving hospital

Published on: December 16, 2024
18:41

Brasilia, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is recovering from brain surgery and was discharged from hospital on Sunday, resumed his work from his home in the state of Sao Paulo on Monday.

Venezuelan president expresses solidarity with Brazilian counterpart

Published on: December 10, 2024
17:56

Caracas, Dec 10 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro expressed his solidarity on Tuesday with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who underwent emergency surgery due to an intracranial hemorrhage.

A headache lands Brazil’s Lula in surgery room

Published on: December 10, 2024
10:57

Brasilia, Dec 10 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is recovering Tuesday after undergoing a head surgery to drain a head hematoma the night before, at the Syrio-Lebanese Hospital here.

Cuba hosts national symposium on heart donors and recipients

Published on: December 9, 2024
17:48

Havana, Dec 9 (Prensa Latina) The Symposium on heart donors and recipients, From heart to heart, took place on Monday at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Clinical Surgical Hospital, where the first organ transplant in Cuba was performed 39 years ago.

Vietnam registers first simultaneous heart and liver transplant

Published on: October 10, 2024
10:59

Hanoi, Oct 10 (Prensa Latina) Specialists from Viet Duc Hospital, in the capital, successfully performed a simultaneous heart and liver transplant on a 41-year-old patient, the first of its kind registered up to date in Vietnam.

Former Uruguayan President Mujica Undergoes Surgery, says Newspaper

Published on: September 7, 2024
16:56

Montevideo, Sep 7 (Prensa Latina) Former Uruguayan President Jose Mujica underwent surgery at the Casmu Sanatorium on Saturday, after two days at hospital, local El Pais newspaper informed.

New therapeutic procedures in Cuba to treat movement disorders

Published on: May 5, 2024
00:30

Havana, May 5 (Prensa Latina) Non-invasive brain stimulation in its two variants (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation) are the new therapeutic procedures used by Cuban experts to treat movement disorders.

Physician postpones maternity leave to operate on Chilean child

Published on: January 30, 2024
15:19

Santiago, Chile, Jan 30 (Prensa Latina) Uruguayan neurosurgeon Katia Todoroff, a graduate from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Havana, Cuba, postponed her maternity leave to operate on a Chilean child who was hospitalized in Talca.

Cuba prosecutes health professionals according to law

Published on: November 28, 2023
12:45

Havana, Nov 28 (Prensa Latina) Cuba ratified on Tuesday that the oral and public trial of six health professionals in the eastern province of Granma was held according to the guarantees established in the laws and other regulatory provisions.

Lula to undergo hip surgery on September 29 in Brasilia

Published on: September 2, 2023
00:30

Brasilia, Sep 1 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will undergo a scheduled hip surgery on September 29 in this capital, local media reported.

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