Desmond Tutu back in hospital

August 18, 2015 17:06

South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is back in hospital, less than a month after being discharged for a persistent infection, his daughter said Tuesday.

"Doctors anticipate that he should be out within the next couple of days... they want to keep him for observation for at least another 24 hours," his daughter the Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu told a press conference in Cape Town.

The 83-year-old Nobel peace laureate was readmitted to hospital on Monday night -- his third visit in as many months. He was hospitalised twice earlier this year over a persistent infection that his foundation said was a consequence of the prostate cancer treatment Tutu has been receiving over the last 18 years.

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