Paraguay ex-president Lugo to undergo surgery for brain hemorrhage

FILE PHOTO: Head of Congress and former Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo talks to the media before a meeting at the Congress in Asuncion, Paraguay August 14, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Adorno/File Photo

ASUNCION (Reuters) -Former Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo will undergo surgery on Wednesday evening to contain a hemorrhage caused by a stroke he suffered earlier in the day and which forced him to be put into a medically induced coma, a senator from Lugo's party said.

The 71-year-old Lugo, who is a senator and governed from 2008 to 2012, will undergo an intravenous intervention to try to control bleeding in the back of his brain, doctor and legislator Jorge Querey said. He did not rule out the possibility of further surgery.