Nelson Mandela Discharged From Hospital, Will Continue Treatment From Home
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from Pretoria hospital and will continue having treatment at home, current South African President Jacob Zuma said via a statement released on Sunday.
“Madiba’s condition remains critical and is at times unstable,” Zuma’s office said, using the apartheid hero’s clan name. “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.”
The former president will continue to be treated in his Johannesburg home, which “has been reconfigured to allow him to receive intensive care there.” Even “the health care personnel providing care at his home are the very same who provided care to him in hospital.”
False reports caused a media frenzy Saturday, when sources close to Mandela told the BBC that the former president had already left the hospital, only to be awkwardly contradicted by the president’s office later that day.
Mandela was hospitalized on June 8 with a lung infection and has remained there in critical condition — at one point being placed on a ventilator — until now. He even celebrated his 95th birthday from the Pretoria hospital.