{"id":1913,"date":"2026-09-30T11:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:03:45","slug":"malaysias-ex-pm-mahathir-hospitalised-for-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1913","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s ex-PM Mahathir hospitalised for observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Malaysia\u2019s 101-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has been hospitalised for observation, his aide told AFP, following the death on Monday of his wife of seven decades.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two-time prime minister was admitted to the National Heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday night, aide Sufi Yusoff said, though the reason for his hospitalisation was not immediately known pending an official diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Sufi said Mahathir had not been getting enough rest following the passing of his wife, Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, on Monday and was feeling fatigued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is in a stable condition,\u201d Sufi told AFP in a WhatsApp message on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is exhausted from the emotional ups and downs, the hot weather and lack of rest. All of that is not a good combination for someone who is 101 years old,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>His wife Siti Hasmah, who was a medical doctor and an advocate for public health, passed away at the age of 100. The couple raised seven children together.<\/p>\n<p>Mahathir, visibly grief-stricken by her death, told the country\u2019s former king through tears that he \u201cdidn\u2019t expect her to die today\u201d, in footage recorded at her funeral and posted on his official Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p>Mahathir has suffered several heart problems in recent years and underwent bypass surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>The centenarian has been hospitalised repeatedly in recent years, and most recently in January after suffering a hip fracture in a fall.<\/p>\n<p>He has been dubbed the world\u2019s oldest-serving leader after helming office twice, first holding the position as the Southeast Asian country\u2019s fourth national leader from 1981 until 2003.<\/p>\n<p>He then served as prime minister for a second time at the age of 92 from 2018 to 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s 101-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has been hospitalised for observation, his aide told AFP, following the death on Monday of his wife of seven decades. The two-time prime minister was admitted to the National Heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday night, aide Sufi Yusoff said, though the reason for his hospitalisation was not immediately known pending an official diagnosis. Sufi said Mahathir had not been getting enough rest following the passing of his wife, Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, on Monday and was feeling fatigued. \u201cHe is in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}