Pistorius claimed he fell out of bed in his cell. Pistorius and his coach said before Steenkamp’s 2013 killing that they wanted to retire together at the Rio games.
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#Singabakhoxumalo, a spokesman for the correctional services department, said that Pistorius told officials that he suffered injuries after falling out of bed.
“The Department of Correctional Services can confirm that our management at Kgosi Mampuru Prison has been informed about this”.
The incident also follows an investigation on Pistorius which was conducted after warders uncovered a pair of scissors, prescription drugs, and “toxic pills” in his cell three weeks ago.
It added: “As a policy principle, we can not further discuss a particular offender’s personal condition in the public domain”.
Family spokesperson Anneliese Burgess said the family would not be responding to media reports at this stage. Prison nurses described Pistorius as “violent” and suggested that he may have been planning to overdose on the pills in a suicide attempt.
“Oscar Pistorius denied speculations of a suicide attempt”.
Pistorius’ brother, Carl Pistorius, tweeted Sunday that the disgraced athlete had “slipped in his cell and injured himself, nothing serious”.
The former Olympic and Paralympic sprinter was jailed for six years last month over the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
Legal experts later slammed his six-year jail sentence – far below the recommended 15-year jail term – as “an insult to the women of South Africa”.
After first being found guilty of culpable homicide, equivalent to manslaughter, an appeal court upgraded his conviction to murder in December a year ago.
He testified that he had killed Steenkamp by mistake, thinking there was an intruder hiding in the bathroom.
The country’s National Prosecuting Authority said the sentence was “disproportionate to the crime” and could bring the justice system “into disrepute”.
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A champion Paralympian athlete, with six gold medals to his name, he became the first double-amputee athlete to compete against able-bodied runners in the Olympics in 2012.
