Johannesburg -The South African
Government said on Monday that
Nelson Mandela remained in a stable
but critical condition more than two
months after doctors treated him for
lung infection.
The former president was still quite ill
and unable to speak because of tubes in
his mouth to clear fluid from his lungs.
The anti-apartheid leader spent 87 days
in a Pretoria hospital before returning to
his Johannesburg family home in
September.
Winnie Mandela, his ex-wife, said that
he was receiving round the clock
treatment from 22 doctors and used
facial gestures to communicate with the
hope that he would recover.
The 95-year-old made his last public
appearance waving to fans from the
back of a golf cart before the Soccer
World Cup final in Johannesburg in
2010.
In April state broadcaster aired a clip of
the thin and frail statesman being
visited by President Jacob Zuma and
top officials from the African National
Congress.
Mandela was elected South Africa's first
black president in multi-racial elections
in 1994 that ended white minority rule.
His imprisonment included 18 years on
the notorious Robben Island penal
colony with other prisoners, where he
first suffered the lung infections that
were to afflict him for years.
According to the statement issued by
the government, the health of the
former president remains much the
same, which is stable but critical
though he continued to respond to
treatment. (Reuters/ NAN Source:VanguardNg.com
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