Nelson Mandela Critical in Hospital - Renewed Call for the Whole of Africa and the World to intensify Prayers for His Total Recovery - Supreme Jehovah God Ministries

Post date: Jun 24, 2013 6:41:56 AM

The South African presidency said the condition of Nelson Mandela has become critical.

The office of Jacob Zuma said that the president had visited the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader and was informed by the medical team that Mr Mandela's condition had become critical in the past 24 hours.

Mr Zuma said that the doctors are "doing everything possible to get his condition to improve".

Mr Mandela, who became South Africa's first black president after the end of apartheid in 1994, was taken to hospital on June 8 for what the government said was a recurring lung infection.

Mr Zuma also met Graca Machel, Mr Mandela's wife, at the hospital in Pretoria and discussed the former leader's condition, according to the statement. Mr Zuma was accompanied on the visit by Cyril Ramaphosa, the deputy president of the country's ruling party, the African National Congress.

Mr Mandela was jailed for 27 years under white racist rule and released in 1990. He then played a leading role in steering the divided country from the apartheid era to democracy, becoming South Africa's first black president in all-race elections in 1994. He was treated in hospital on June 8 for what the government said was a recurring lung infection.

In Sunday's statement, Mr Zuma also discussed the government's acknowledgement a day earlier that an ambulance carrying Mandela to the hospital two weeks ago had engine trouble, requiring the former president to be transferred to another ambulance for his journey to the hospital.

"There were seven doctors in the convoy who were in full control of the situation throughout the period. He had expert medical care," Mr Zuma said. "The fully equipped military ICU ambulance had a full complement of specialist medical staff including intensive care specialists and ICU nurses. The doctors also dismissed the media reports that Madiba suffered cardiac arrest. There is no truth at all in that report."

Mr Mandela is seen by many around the world as a symbol of reconciliation, and Mr Zuma appealed to South Africans and the international community to pray for the ailing ex-president, his family and the medical team attending to him.

The ruling party expressed concern about the deterioration in Mr Mandela's health. "We welcome the work being done by The Presidency to ensure that South Africans and people of the world are kept informed on the state of Mr Mandela's health," the party said. "The African National Congress joins The Presidency in calling upon all of us to keep President Mandela, his family and his medical team in our thoughts and prayers during this trying time."

SJGS Mawuvi, President and Founder of the Supreme Jehovah God Ministries says that we renew our urgent call for all the Men and Women of God and of Faith to join us in to intercede in Intense Special Prayers for the total recovery of Madiba, to support the work of the Clinical Team treating the Great Icon of Race Equality, Justice and Force for Good.