Transport Minister Dullah Omar was in a serious condition in a Cape Town hospital on Thursday, following more than a year of treatment for cancer. Omar was admitted on Tuesday with respiratory problems and was in the intensive care unit on a ventilator, Constantiaberg Medi Clinic hospital manager Clive Lake said.
”He is an ill man. His family have been with him throughout this period,” Lake said.
In January 2003, Omar was diagnosed with Hodgkins-Classic, a form of cancer of the lymph nodes, and was prescribed an eight-month course of treatment, including chemotherapy.
Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe is filling in for him. – Sapa