Former Zambian president Kaunda stable, recuperating: health official

Source: Xinhua| 2017-07-22 02:44:55|Editor: yan
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LUSAKA, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Zambia's health ministry said on Friday that former President Kenneth Kaunda was stable and in high spirit.

Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya, who visited the former president at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka, the country's capital where he is admitted, said he was recuperating well from a minor ailment.

"He continues to be stable and is attending physiotherapy for an old joint related ailment," he said in a statement.

Doctors, he said, have carried out a battery of investigations that constitute his routine medical checkup and that there was no cause to panic as his condition was very stable.

The 93-year-old Kaunda was hospitalized on Tuesday evening after what his office said minor complaints.

However online reports on Thursday claimed he had died, prompting the government to quickly issue a statement to dispel the reports.

But presidential spokesperson Amos Chanda said on Friday morning that his office has been inundated with frantic calls from foreign governments and international media following fake reports announcing the former president's death.

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