{"id":8345,"date":"2012-02-26T02:34:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-4-mandela-in-hospital-expected-to-go-home-soon\/"},"modified":"2012-02-26T02:34:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:34:26","slug":"update-4-mandela-in-hospital-expected-to-go-home-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-4-mandela-in-hospital-expected-to-go-home-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 4-Mandela in hospital, expected to go home soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Former president &#8220;not in any danger&#8221;<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Should be released on Sunday or Monday<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mandela frail at 93<\/p>\n<p> (Updates with Mandela comfortable, to be discharged)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Cropley<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Former South African<br \/>\npresident Nelson Mandela was comfortable in hospital on Saturday<br \/>\nafter undergoing a &#8220;diagnostic procedure&#8221; for abdominal pains,<br \/>\nthe government said, telling people not to panic about the<br \/>\nhealth of the 93-year-old anti-apartheid leader.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A statement from President Jacob Zuma said Mandela, who is<br \/>\npopularly known by his clan name, Madiba, should be discharged<br \/>\non Sunday or Monday after being checked out for a &#8220;long-standing<br \/>\nabdominal complaint&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Madiba is fine and fully conscious and the doctors are<br \/>\nsatisfied with his condition, which they say is consistent with<br \/>\nhis age,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was in good health before admission in hospital but<br \/>\ndoctors felt the complaint needed a thorough investigation.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are happy that he is not in any danger and thank the<br \/>\ndoctors for their hard work and professionalism.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Former president &#8220;not in any danger&#8221; * Should be released on Sunday or Monday * Mandela frail at 93 (Updates with Mandela comfortable, to be discharged) By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG, Feb 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Former South African president Nelson Mandela was comfortable in hospital on Saturday after undergoing a &#8220;diagnostic procedure&#8221; for abdominal pains, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}