9/5/2007
KUALA LUMPUR : Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is eating, exercising and talking with his family after bypass surgery at Malaysia's top heart clinic, hospital officials said Thursday.
Mahathir, 82, "continued to make good progress" under close observation in an intensive care ward following Tuesday's nearly six-hour operation, the National Heart Institute said in a statement.
Mahathir started a liquid diet Thursday morning and is fully conscious, alert and able to converse with his family, the statement said.
"He is currently undergoing intensive physiotherapy to optimize his respiratory function," the statement added. "In addition (Mahathir) is also doing light exercises of his arms and legs. His vital parameters continue to be stable."
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and other government officials and public figures have visited the hospital in recent days, but they did not meet Mahathir because only immediate family members are allowed to see him.
Mahathir chose to have the surgery - his second since 1989 - after he suffered heart attacks in November 2006 and May this year.
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