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GEOFFREY YORK
JOHANNESBURG The Globe and Mail
Published Sunday, Sep. 01 2013, 8:02 AM EDT
With his house now transformed into an intensive-card ward, Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital and moved by ambulance to his home in a Johannesburg suburb where he remains in critical condition.
The 95-year-old anti-apartheid hero is still sometimes slipping into unstable condition, needing medical intervention to revive him, but his entire medical team will now continue to care for him at his home, an official South African statement said.
A report in a South African newspaper on Sunday said the Mandela family and its doctors had decided that it is now time for Mandela to be moved home to see out his final days.
Mr. Mandela, the first democratically elected president of South Africa, was rushed to a Pretoria hospital on June 8 with a lung infection and continued to deteriorate for weeks afterward. Officials said in July that his condition was beginning to improve, but he remained in critical condition and sometimes needed intervention to stabilize him.
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gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)Prayers for him as he journey's from this life to the next!
NMDemDist2
(49,313 posts)if they weren't just letting him go to die at home.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)I hope that all this medical intervention is what he wants and not just what his family wants.
pscot
(21,023 posts)as long as he's in intensive care.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)mike_c
(36,214 posts)...but few live a life as full and as momentous as Nelson Mandela. A great man is passing.