{"id":9888,"date":"2013-09-01T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9888"},"modified":"2013-09-01T18:38:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T18:38:18","slug":"mandela-discharged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9888","title":{"rendered":"Mandela discharged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/madiba4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9889\" alt=\"madiba4\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/madiba4-300x165.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/madiba4-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/madiba4-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/madiba4.jpg 457w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Former President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from his three-month admission at Pretoria&#8217;s Mediclinic hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The 95-year-old returned to his Houghton home on Sunday morning, where he continues to receive intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by the Presidency, they confirmed that his condition remains &#8220;critical, and at times unstable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was escourted to his home by medical staff after his long stay which began on June 8, to treat a recurring lung infection.<\/p>\n<p>The international icon celebrated his 95th birthday in hospital on July 18, while the worlds\u2019 media camped outside the medical complex.<\/p>\n<p>Tributes for his recovery came in from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Well-wishers left poems, paintings, flags and floral bouquets outside the Pretoria hospital and his Houghton home.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement this morning, the Presidency said: \u201cWe would like to wish him all the best as he continues his recovery at his Johannesburg home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there are other health conditions that will warrant another hospital admission, we would do so,&#8221; added Presidency spokesperson Mac Maharaj.<\/p>\n<p>Maharaj added that his resident has been &#8220;reconfigured to all him to receive intensive care there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>South Africans have been urged to keep praying for him, and to respect Madiba and his family\u2019s private space.<\/p>\n<p>Madiba&#8217;s grandson, Mandla, said his discharge was &#8220;particularly heartening because it flies in the face of those who have been busy spreading lies that he was in a &#8216;vegetative state&#8217; and just waiting for his support machines to be switched off&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He added these kind of people had been &#8220;in effect declaring him dead while he was fully alive&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from his three-month admission at Pretoria&#8217;s Mediclinic hospital. The 95-year-old returned to his Houghton home on Sunday morning, where he continues to receive intensive care. In a statement by the Presidency, they confirmed that his condition remains &#8220;critical, and at times unstable.&#8221; He was escourted to his home &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9888\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mandela discharged&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5745,5744,560,1586],"class_list":["post-9888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-houghton","tag-mediclinic-hospital","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-presidency"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/madiba4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9890,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888\/revisions\/9890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}