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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