Johannesburg (Reuters) – former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela has received the high hospital on Sunday, after receiving the approval of the doctors I have been treated for a chronic abdominal pain, it was reported to the Office of President Jacob Zuma.
Tests performed to the former President “does not indicate nothing very serious” health of the leading anti-apartheid of 93 years, and has been sent home, said the South African Government statement.
Previously, Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said that Mandela had been subjected to a “laparoscopy of research” – which consists of inserting a small camera in the abdomen – and denied the information that had been operated hernia.
“Was not the operation that has appeared in the media at all,” said Sisulu on Saturday at a briefing in Cape Town. “Okay.” “Everything is as well which may be their age – and with good looks”.
Mandela health has been fragile since he was hospitalized a year ago with respiratory problems, and has not appeared in public since then.
Entry on Saturday renewed fears for the health of the first Black President of South Africa, which still holds a central role in the mythology of a country ruled by the white minority until the inter-racial elections in 1994.
Despite the widespread popular affection, most agree that Mandela, who spent 27 years imprisoned by the apartheid Government, could not live much more.
“Wish you the best”, said the resident of Soweto Ronny Zondi. “But taking into account their age, we have to accept that I could not go with us long time.” “We would like that Dios could keep him more time here”.
His last major public appearance occurred in July of 2010 in the final of the World Cup in Johannesburg’s Soccer City Stadium. Time passes between Johannesburg and the population of their ancestors, Qunu, in the impoverished Eastern Cape Province.
The Government on income of Mandela’s public statements have been more transparent this time.
A year ago, the Office of Zuma took hours to confirm to the media of his weak health condition, giving rise to an avalanche of international and domestic journalists on the outskirts of hospital Johannesburg. Milpark
