Nelson Mandela spends 2nd day in hospital with lung infection
Posted June 9, 2013 4:17 pm.
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Many in South Africa and around the world are praying today as they anxiously wait for an update on the condition of Nelson Mandela.
The 94-year-old former South African president is spending a second day in an undisclosed Pretoria hospital, where he’s listed in serious but stable condition with a recurring lung infection.
“A few days ago this lung infection came back to haunt Nelson Mandela,” said Andrew Harding with the BBC.
“At 1:30 (Saturday) 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.”
This is the fourth time in six months Mandela has been admitted to hospital.
The most recent was a 10-day stay in April for pneumonia.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who was imprisoned for 27-years, became the first democratically elected president of South Africa in 1994.
