Mandela still critical but official mum on operation
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South Africa’s presidency said yesterday that Nelson Mandela was still critically ill in hospital but improving slightly, declining to comment on a report the anti-apartheid hero had undergone an operation.
The former statesman underwent a “surgical procedure to unblock a dialysis tube” last Friday just before marking his seventh week at a Pretoria health facility, according to US news network CBS.
The operation was “minor.”
But presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj would not confirm that the procedure took place. “He is critical, stable, but there is some improvement.”
According to earlier reports the 95-year-old Nobel peace laureate was breathing with the aid of a ventilator and had undergone dialysis a few weeks after he was hospitalized for a lung infection on June 8.
CBS also reported two scares on his condition in the past week. “On one occasion Nelson Mandela was not responding to his meds (medicines), and on another his life support machine showed him in distress.”
Maharaj said he was not aware of any recent scares.
There was no further information over Mandela’s possible discharge, which family members alluded to on his 95th birthday two weeks ago.
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