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BBC: Nelson Mandela taken to hospital with abdominal complaint
Last edited Sat Feb 25, 2012, 07:52 AM - Edit history (1)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17163576Officials said he was suffering from a "long-standing abdominal complaint" which doctors felt needed "proper specialist medical attention". A spokesman for current President Jacob Zuma said the former leader, affectionately known as Madiba, was "in good spirits and well". The 93-year-old statesman and anti-apartheid icon has suffered declining health in recent years.
He told the BBC that further information would be released once Mr Zuma and the Mandela family had received a full medical report from doctors, but that the 93-year-old's life was not in danger.
"But it is an issue that the doctors treating him felt needed specialist attention, and so arragements were made accordingly." He would not confirm reports that Mr Mandela had undergone surgery for a hernia overnight, and appealed for "co-operation from the public and the media so we manage this thing properly".
*UPDATE
Nelson Mandela 'stable after surgery for abdominal complaint'
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