South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is back in hospital, less than a month after being discharged for a persistent infection, his daughter said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoctors anticipate that he should be out within the next couple of days\u2026 they want to keep him for observation for at least another 24 hours,\u201d his daughter the Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu told a press conference in Cape Town.<\/p>\n
The 83-year-old Nobel peace laureate was readmitted to hospital on Monday night \u2013 his third visit in as many months.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
His daughter said the doctors were not tackling the same infection anymore but were now treating him for \u201cinflammation\u201d, without specifying where.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis spirits are quite good,\u201d she said, after visiting him Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe nurses all say he\u2019s just back to come and see them again and he\u2019s willing to concur\u2026 It\u2019s the right place for him to be right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said her parents were \u201cincredibly grateful\u201d to people \u201cin South Africa and around the world who continue to hold us in your prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The much-loved cleric, who is seen as South Africa\u2019s moral leader, shot to worldwide fame during the apartheid era, leading demonstrations against white minority rule in his purple cassock.<\/p>\n
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.<\/p>\n
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