Post by cenydd on Aug 12, 2013 9:15:39 GMT
Former South African President Nelson Mandela's health is improving steadily, although he remains in a critical condition, a presidency statement revealed.
The 95-year-old has been receiving treatment for a recurring lung infection at Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria for more than two months.
Doctors at the hospital have assured to President Jacob Zuma that the anti-apartheid icon is making a slow but steady improvement, News24 reports.
Zuma has appealed the South Africans to keep on praying for Mandela's recovery and good health, the report added.
Mandela's youngest daughter Zindzi said that her father was now able to sit up without help and he was more alert and more responsive than before.
Earlier, his ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela had denied reports of him being in a permanent vegetative state.
The 95-year-old has been receiving treatment for a recurring lung infection at Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria for more than two months.
Doctors at the hospital have assured to President Jacob Zuma that the anti-apartheid icon is making a slow but steady improvement, News24 reports.
Zuma has appealed the South Africans to keep on praying for Mandela's recovery and good health, the report added.
Mandela's youngest daughter Zindzi said that her father was now able to sit up without help and he was more alert and more responsive than before.
Earlier, his ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela had denied reports of him being in a permanent vegetative state.
www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/nelson-mandela-recovering-slowly-and-steadily-but-remains-critical-113081200397_1.html
I sincerely hope that they are telling the truth, and that it isn't something being put out to make South Africans feel better, but I think at his age people there must be getting used to the idea of his ultimate mortality.