Mandela discharged from Pretoria hospital

The Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa on Sunday
discharged former South Africa’s President, Nelson Mandela, from
hospital.
Mandela has been in the hospital for the past two months receiving
treatment for recurring lungs infections.
However, a statement by the spokesman of the South African government,
Mac Maharaj, said Mandela’s condition was still critical and sometime
unstable.
It said that Mandela would continue to receive intensive care
treatment at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg.
Maharaj said: “Former President Nelson Mandela has this morning,
September 1, 2013, been discharged from the Pretoria hospital where he
has been receiving treatment.
“Mandela’s condition remained critical and at times unstable.
“Nevertheless, his team of doctors are convinced that he will receive
the same level of intensive care at his Houghton home that he received
in Pretoria.”
He said Mandela’s home had been reconfigured to ensure he receives the
correct car, and the same staff who had been at the hospital would now
care for him at home.
Maharaj said: “Despite the difficulties imposed by his various
illnesses, he, as always, displays immense grace and fortitude.
“We would like to wish him all the best as he continues his recovery
at his Johannesburg home.”
Mandela was hospitalised on June 8 when his condition “vacillated
between serious to critical and at times unstable.”
Meanwhile, Mandela’s family is celebrating his return home after being
discharged from hospital.
His grandson, Mandla Mandela, said it was a day of celebration for the
family that the global icon is home.
He said that Mandela‘s discharge was “particularly heartening because
it flies in the face of those who have been busy spreading lies that
he was in a ‘vegetative state’ and just waiting for his support
machines to be switched off”.
Mandla said these people had been “in effect declaring him dead while
he was fully alive”.
He said the family thanked all those who had prayed for Madiba’s well-being.
The presidency in South Africa gave assurance that if there are health
conditions that warrant Mandela’s re-admission to hospital in future,
it will be done.
It called on the public to allow Mandela and his family privacy so as
to allow him to receive his care with dignity.