Nelson Mandela in serious but stable condition in hospital after falling ill
Posted Jun 8, 2013 07:13:22 AM.
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela has fallen ill again, with reports indicating he is back under the watch of doctors.
The 94-year-old icon was taken to an undisclosed hospital where is considered to be in serious but stable condition.
“A few days ago this lung infection came back to haunt Nelson Mandela,” said Andrew Harding with the BBC.
“At 1:30 this morning the doctors decided that his condition had deteriorated and they took him from Johannesburg, where he’s been staying, up to Pretoria,” Harding added. “He’s now in an undisclosed hospital there, and we understand that his condition is serious, but stable.”
Harding says Mandela has been spending a significant amount of hospital in the past several months.
“This is, I make it, the sixth time in seven months that Nelson Mandela has been to hospital, so it has become quite a familiar routine now, but each time of course, the nation and the world are on edge because of his extraordinary stature,” Harding said.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who was imprisoned for 27-years, became the first democratically elected president of South Africa in 1994.
