Mandela discharged from hospital
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E-mail Xinhua, March 10, 2013
South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital on Sunday after a medical check-up, the Presidency said.
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South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela. [File Photo] |
Mandela has returned to his Johannesburg home following "a successful medical examination at a Pretoria hospital," presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said.
Mandela was admitted into hospital on Saturday for a scheduled medical check-up.
"The doctors have completed the tests. He is well and as before, his health remains under the management of the medical team," Maharaj said.
"We continue to appeal for privacy for Madiba and his family."
Mandela, 94, was admitted into hospital for the second time in three months. On Dec. 8, he was taken into a Pretoria hospital for a lung infection and gallstones. He underwent a successful surgery to have the gallstones removed after doctors attended to his lung infection.
He was discharged from hospital on Dec. 26 to undergo home- based high care at his Houghton home. This was Mandela's longest hospital stay since 2001 when he underwent seven weeks of radiotherapy after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Mandela served as South African president from 1994 to 1999. He had spent 27 years in prison before elected the first black president in the country after the end of apartheid.
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