Two-time former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was sent to hospital on Tuesday after a fall in his home in Kuala Lumpur.
The centenarian fell while walking from the balcony to his living room and was rushed to the National Heart Institute for observation, according to an aide.
“Tun was taken in by ambulance and arrived at 9.30am. He was conscious,” Mahathir’s press secretary Sufi Yusoff told the media, using the former leader’s honorific.
Sufi said he was not in a position to comment on Mahathir’s condition, pending updates from the medical team attending to him.
While he currently holds no party affiliation, he has maintained an active role in attempting to unite opposition forces to challenge his former protege turned arch-rival, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim .
The storied feud between the two had shaped the country’s politics over the past two decades, as Mahathir’s Malay nationalist posturing clashed with Anwar’s reformist agenda – a conflict that has deepened racial schisms in multicultural Malaysia .
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