Ex-Brazil President Rousseff discharged from Shanghai hospital


FILE PHOTO: President of the New Development Bank Dilma Rousseff arrives at BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, now the head of the BRICS bloc's development bank, has been discharged from a hospital in Shanghai after nearly a week hospitalized, her press office said on Friday.

Rousseff, 77, was admitted to the Shanghai East International Medical Center on February 21 due to a case of inflammation of the balance nerve, formally known as vestibular neuritis, and responded well to the treatment.

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