Brazilian president to undergo new operation to 'minimize' cranial bleeding risk

If everything continues as it is, at the beginning of next week the president should be discharged" from the Sao Paulo hospital, and "he will gradually resume his normal activity,

Kalil said

The president is awake and speaking,

Kalil told reporters at the Hospital Sirio-Libanes in Sao Paulo where Lula, 79, is being treated