Mandela in hospital
NZPA-Reuter Cape Town The black South African nationalist, Nelson Mandela, was in a comfortable and satisfactory condition on Saturday after being admitted to a heavilyguarded hospital with a lung ailment, doctors said.
Mandela, aged 70, jailed for life in 1964 for seeking the overthrow of white-minority rule, was transferred from Pollsmoor prison to the Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town. A terse medical bulletin said he was suffering from a “leftsided pleural effusion”, or fluid in the membrane of the left lung.
Doctors refused to disclose any details. Armed police barred access to the fourth floor of the non-Euro-pean wing of the huge hospital. The ward where Mandela was being treated was declared off limits to most nurses, and reporters were ordered away from the building.
A doctor in another South African hospital said the symptoms described in the bulletin could be caused by an infection, tuberculosis or malignancy. It could be very painful, said the doctor. He said it was impossible at this stage to say how long Mandela would have to remain in hospital.
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