South African anti-apartheid campaigner and veteran cleric Desmond Tutu has been admitted to hospital due to “inflammation”, his daughter said on Tuesday, the second time in a month the 83-year-old has needed medical treatment.
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“Doctors anticipate that he should be out within the next couple of days…”
His hospitalizations in July were for infections.
Tutu has been treated for prostate cancer for 18 years, but it is now under control, according to Fox News. “They want to keep him for observation for at least another 24 hours”, his daughter the Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu told a press conference in Cape Town.
Mpho said her father’s current treatment has nothing to do with the prostrate cancer he’s been battling over the last few years.
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize victor and social activist, was hospitalized again, according to CNN. “It’s the right place for him to be right now”, said Mpho Tutu. As you know, and as my father is finding out, he is 83, not 38, so bouncing back from an illness is not quite as easy as it once was…
