Kenyan premier Raila Odinga is responding well to treatment after a head operation, but needs four days in hospital and home rest before resuming his duties, a doctor said on Wednesday.
“The PM had a good night last night, woke up this morning brighter … everything has been removed and he is not in any pain,” neurosurgeon Oluoch Olunya said.
“We have taken off all the drips and all his medication now will be oral; he has had the opportunity to do exercises this morning and as far as we are concerned he is moving according to plan,” the physician added.
He said the prime minister was suffering from a chronic subdural haematoma, which he said was a blood clot on the surface of the brain.
Olunya said Odinga will spend the next four days in Nairobi Hospital and will require further home rest after being discharged.
Odinga (65) checked himself into Nairobi hospital on Monday evening complaining of exhaustion and headaches.
In recent weeks Odinga, who has been Kenya’s prime minister since April 2008, has been criss-crossing the country to campaign in favour of a new constitution, due to be submitted to a referendum on August 4. — AFP