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| Jimmy Carter in hospital for brain surgery after recent falls | Jimmy Carter in hospital for brain surgery after recent falls |
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| Former US president ‘resting comfortable’ ahead of procedure on Tuesday, spokeswoman says | Former US president ‘resting comfortable’ ahead of procedure on Tuesday, spokeswoman says |
| The former US president Jimmy Carter was admitted to a hospital on Monday evening for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, caused by bleeding due to his recent falls, his spokeswoman said. | The former US president Jimmy Carter was admitted to a hospital on Monday evening for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, caused by bleeding due to his recent falls, his spokeswoman said. |
| The procedure is scheduled for Tuesday morning at Emory University hospital, Deanna Congileo said in a statement. | The procedure is scheduled for Tuesday morning at Emory University hospital, Deanna Congileo said in a statement. |
| Carter, 95, has fallen at least three times this year, and the first incident in the spring required hip replacement surgery. He traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, and helped build a Habitat for Humanity home after getting 14 stitches following a fall on 6 October. And he was briefly hospitalized after fracturing his pelvis on 21 October. He received a dire cancer diagnosis in 2015 but survived and has since said he is cancer-free. | Carter, 95, has fallen at least three times this year, and the first incident in the spring required hip replacement surgery. He traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, and helped build a Habitat for Humanity home after getting 14 stitches following a fall on 6 October. And he was briefly hospitalized after fracturing his pelvis on 21 October. He received a dire cancer diagnosis in 2015 but survived and has since said he is cancer-free. |
| Nearly four decades after he left office, the oldest-ever former US president still teaches Sunday school roughly twice a month at Maranatha Baptist church in his tiny hometown of Plains in south-west Georgia. | |
| The Rev Tony Lowden, Carter’s pastor, said the ex-president was hospitalized Monday on what he called “a rough day”. | |
| “We just need the whole country to be in prayer for him,” Lowden said in a telephone interview. | “We just need the whole country to be in prayer for him,” Lowden said in a telephone interview. |
| Carter is resting comfortably, and his wife, Rosalynn, is with him, Congileo said. | Carter is resting comfortably, and his wife, Rosalynn, is with him, Congileo said. |