{"id":8353,"date":"2012-02-26T14:36:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T12:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/mandela-comfortable-after-keyhole-surgery\/"},"modified":"2012-02-26T14:36:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T12:36:38","slug":"mandela-comfortable-after-keyhole-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mandela-comfortable-after-keyhole-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandela &quot;comfortable&quot; after keyhole surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mandela recovering well from &#8220;investigative laparoscopy&#8221;<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Procedure involves inserting tiny camera into abdomen<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Government denies hernia operation reports<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africans fear for health of first black president<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Cropley<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Feb 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Nelson Mandela<br \/>\nremained in hospital on Sunday after keyhole surgery that<br \/>\nofficials said had left him in no danger but increased South<br \/>\nAfricans&#8217; concerns for their aging former president.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Jacob Zuma told the country not to panic after the<br \/>\n93-year-old anti-apartheid leader was hospitalised with chronic<br \/>\nabdominal pain on Saturday, saying he should be discharged on<br \/>\nSunday or Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the latest health update, Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu<br \/>\nsaid Mandela had had &#8220;investigative laparoscopy&#8221; &#8211; where a tiny<br \/>\ncamera is inserted into the abdomen &#8211; and denied reports that he<br \/>\nhad undergone surgery for a hernia.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t the surgery that has been out there in the media<br \/>\nat all,&#8221; Sisulu told a media briefing in Cape Town. &#8220;He&#8217;s fine.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s as fine as can be at his age &#8211; and handsome.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Mandela recovering well from &#8220;investigative laparoscopy&#8221; * Procedure involves inserting tiny camera into abdomen * Government denies hernia operation reports * South Africans fear for health of first black president By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG, Feb 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Nelson Mandela remained in hospital on Sunday after keyhole surgery that officials said had left him [&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-8353","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\/8353","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=8353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}