{"id":10625,"date":"2024-10-16T16:38:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T10:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=10625"},"modified":"2024-10-16T16:38:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T10:53:50","slug":"malaysias-99-year-old-ex-pm-mahathir-in-hospital-again-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/malaysias-99-year-old-ex-pm-mahathir-in-hospital-again-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s 99-year-old ex-PM Mahathir in hospital again: aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Malaysia&#8217;s nearly 100-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has been hospitalised for a respiratory infection, his aide told AFP Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time former prime minister was last hospitalised in July for &#8220;continuous coughing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday his aide said he was admitted to the National Heart Institute on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason as stated by the hospital was for &#8216;lower respiratory tract infection&#8217;,&#8221; Sufi Yusoff said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is expected to be receiving treatment for the next few days.&#8221;\u00a0Mahathir just turned 99 in July.<\/p>\n<p>He has suffered several heart problems in recent years and underwent bypass surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>Besides his July hospitalisation, he also spent nearly three months in hospital earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mahathir has been dubbed the world&#8217;s oldest serving leader after helming office twice, first holding the position as the Southeast Asian country&#8217;s fourth national leader from 1981 until 2003.<\/p>\n<p>He then served as prime minister for a second time at the age of 92 from 2018 to 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia&#8217;s nearly 100-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has been hospitalised for a respiratory infection, his aide told AFP Wednesday. The two-time former prime minister was last hospitalised in July for &#8220;continuous coughing&#8221;. On Wednesday his aide said he was admitted to the National Heart Institute on Tuesday evening. &#8220;The reason as stated by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10627,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625\/revisions\/10627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}