Ailing Mandela back in hospital
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March 29, 2013, Friday
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SOUTH Africa's presidency says 94-year-old Nelson Mandela is responding positively to hospital treatment for a recurring lung infection.
The office of President Jacob Zuma also said in a statement yesterday that the former president remains under observation.
Mandela was admitted late on Wednesday to a hospital in Pretoria, the South African capital.
Mandela contracted tuberculosis during his 27-year imprisonment for fighting white racist rule in South Africa. He has repeatedly had lung problems.
The anti-apartheid leader has become increasingly frail in recent years and has been hospitalized several times since last year, most recently earlier this month when he underwent what authorities said was a scheduled medical test.
The Nobel laureate is a revered figure in South Africa, which has honored his legacy of reconciliation by naming buildings and other places after him and printing his image on national banknotes.
"I'm so sorry. I'm sad," said Obed Mokwana, a Johannesburg resident. "I just try to pray all the time. He must come very strong again."
In an earlier statement, Zuma's office said the Nobel laureate was admitted to a hospital just before midnight on Wednesday "due to the recurrence of his lung infection."
"Doctors are attending to him, ensuring that he has the best possible expert medical treatment and comfort," the statement said.
It appealed "for understanding and privacy in order to allow space to the doctors to do their work."
In December, Mandela spent three weeks in a hospital in Pretoria, where he was treated for a lung infection and had a procedure to remove gallstones.
Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj acknowledged there was cause for worry, but said the medical specialists treating Mandela were very competent.
"The health has been OK given his age, but the downturn last night - obviously when the lung infection recurs, the doctors will want to do everything possible and make sure that they don't allow the infection to spread, that they arrest it as quickly as possible," Maharaj told a South African news channel.
The office of President Jacob Zuma also said in a statement yesterday that the former president remains under observation.
Mandela was admitted late on Wednesday to a hospital in Pretoria, the South African capital.
Mandela contracted tuberculosis during his 27-year imprisonment for fighting white racist rule in South Africa. He has repeatedly had lung problems.
The anti-apartheid leader has become increasingly frail in recent years and has been hospitalized several times since last year, most recently earlier this month when he underwent what authorities said was a scheduled medical test.
The Nobel laureate is a revered figure in South Africa, which has honored his legacy of reconciliation by naming buildings and other places after him and printing his image on national banknotes.
"I'm so sorry. I'm sad," said Obed Mokwana, a Johannesburg resident. "I just try to pray all the time. He must come very strong again."
In an earlier statement, Zuma's office said the Nobel laureate was admitted to a hospital just before midnight on Wednesday "due to the recurrence of his lung infection."
"Doctors are attending to him, ensuring that he has the best possible expert medical treatment and comfort," the statement said.
It appealed "for understanding and privacy in order to allow space to the doctors to do their work."
In December, Mandela spent three weeks in a hospital in Pretoria, where he was treated for a lung infection and had a procedure to remove gallstones.
Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj acknowledged there was cause for worry, but said the medical specialists treating Mandela were very competent.
"The health has been OK given his age, but the downturn last night - obviously when the lung infection recurs, the doctors will want to do everything possible and make sure that they don't allow the infection to spread, that they arrest it as quickly as possible," Maharaj told a South African news channel.
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