Dr Mahathir hospitalised with Covid


Dr Mahathir Mohamad is in the National Heart Institute after testing positive for Covid-19 this morning. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, August 30, 2022.

FORMER prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad was admitted to the National Heart Institute (IJN) after testing positive for Covid-19 this morning, his office said.

“Dr Mahathir has been admitted to IJN for observation for the next few days as advised by the medical team.”

The 97-year-old Langkawi MP was last in IJN on December 16 last year for a “full medical check-up and further observation”.

Prior to that, in August 2016, he was admitted to IJN for the treatment of a chest infection.

He suffered his first cardiac arrest in 1989, at the age of 64. Two more such attacks followed in 2006. A year later, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery.

He was treated for all his heart ailments at IJN. – August 30, 2022.


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  • We can only hope

    Posted 3 years ago by Jeevaraj Nadarajah · Reply

  • I pray that Tun will recover and get well soon.

    Posted 3 years ago by Super Duper · Reply