Ailing Mandela in critical condition but ‘resilient’
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Nelson Mandela’s health is unstable at times but the critically ill South African icon has shown “great resilience,” the presidency said yesterday, as he spent a 78th day in hospital.
“While at times his condition becomes unstable, the doctors indicate that the former president has demonstrated great resilience and his condition tends to stabilise as a result of medical interventions,” said the statement, the first in nearly two weeks.
The ailing 95-year-old anti-apartheid icon was hospitalized in Pretoria on June 8 with a recurring lung infection.
“Doctors are still working hard to effect a turnaround and a further improvement in his health and to keep the former president comfortable,” President Jacob Zuma’s office added.
Presidency spokesman Mac Maharaj did not elaborate further on his condition.
“There are times when he has those down moments, he responds to treatment, but there are times when it’s not stable,” he said. ”But he’s stable.”
In late June, Zuma cancelled a trip abroad after Mandela’s health deteriorated but his office said he would leave yesterday for Malaysia for an official visit as planned. While there, he will receive a peace award on Mandela’s behalf.
Zuma urged South Africans to continue praying for Mandela and to keep the country’s first black president constantly in their thoughts.
His youngest daughter Zindzi Mandela said two days earlier that he was able to sit up unaccompanied and was “more alert, more responsive”.
Mandela has faced several health scares in recent years and his lung problems date to his 27 years in apartheid jail.
His current hospitalization is his longest since he walked free from jail in 1990.
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