“Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been readmitted to a hospital in Cape Town … He was discharged from hospital last Tuesday, and readmitted this afternoon after expressing renewed discomfort. His doctors considered it prudent for him to return to hospital for observation,” according to a statement from the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation.
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Tutu was first hospitalised by the infection on 14 July. The 83-year-old Nobel peace laureate also continues to battle prostate cancer, first diagnosed 15 years ago, but his foundation said the current infection was unrelated.
