After nearly three months in the hospital, Nelson Mandela went home in an ambulance Sunday. According to South African PresidentJacob Zuma, Mandela is still in critical condition and will receive intensive care at home from the same team of doctors who treated him during his hospital stay. Former President Nelson Mandela has this morning, 1 September 2013, been discharged from the Pretoria hospital where he has been receiving treatment. We would like to wish him all the best as he continues his recovery at his Johannesburg home. Madiba’s condition remains critical and is at times unstable. Nevertheless, his team of doctors are convinced that he will receive the same level of intensive care at his Houghton home that he received in Pretoria. His home has been reconfigured to allow him to receive intensive care there. The health care personnel providing care at his home are the very same who provided care to him in hospital. If there are health conditions that w ...
Former South African president Nelson Mandela is recovering well from a lung infection after spending eight days in a Pretoria hospital, his grandson Mandla Mandela says. Mandla claims the 94 year-old “looked good,” after a recent hospital visit. “Madiba is recovering very well and looks good,” Mandla Mandela said in Qunu, a village in the Eastern Cape province where Mandela was born and spent his adolescent years. ”I thank the nation and the world for the prayers for Madiba, and the doctors and the office of the ANC for keeping the family updated,” he said. On Thursday, South African President Jacob Zuma announced that Mandela’s health was improving, but that he remained in serious condition. This marks Mandela’s fourth hospitalization since last December. The anti-apartheid activis has had a history of lung problems stemming from his time at the Windswept Robben Island prison camp near Cape Town. Mandela spent 27 years there under white rule after leading South Africa’s anti-apartheid m ...
