Nelson Mandela is recovering well at home after being released from hospital earlier this month, his wife Graca Machel said today.
“He’s doing well,” she told AFP after giving a speech on neonatal care just outside Johannesburg. “That’s why I am here.” The 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon was released from hospital on April 6, after a 10-day stay during which he was treated for pneumonia.
His release was decided “following a sustained and gradual improvement in his general condition,” the South African government said at the time. He is currently receiving “high care” at his Johannesburg home, after the latest in a series of health scares.
Mandela was rushed to hospital before midnight on March 27, suffering from a recurrence of a lung infection. Doctors drained a build-up of fluid, known as a pleural effusion or “water on the lungs”, that had developed.