Jimmy Carter begins hospital care

Former US President Jimmy Carter, 98 years oldhas decided to begin receiving palliative care at home after a series of recent hospital admissions, his NGO The Carter Center announced this Saturday.

After a series of short stays in the hospital, former President Jimmy Carter decided this Saturday the rest of the time you spend at home with your family and receive hospice care instead of more medical interventions,” said the organization, reports Efe.

The Carter Center added that the former Democratic president, in power from 1977 to 1981, “has the full support” of his medical team and his family, which, according to the note, “requests privacy” at this time and appreciates the interest and concern he has received from his “many fans”.

All of us at Habitat for Humanity lift up President and Mrs. Carter in prayer as he enters the hospital. We pray for their comfort and for their peace.

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Carter, born in Plains, Georgia, He turned 98 on October 1st. and is the longest-serving former American president in the country’s history.

In 2015, he underwent cancer treatment after a small mass was removed from his liver that later spread to his brain, where four malignant melanomas were found. However, after undergoing treatment, doctors indicated that, against all odds, she was cancer-free.

The former president has also suffered several falls in the past that have limited his mobility, such as the one he had in 2019 in which he broke his pelvis, according to Efe.

Carter’s tenure, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, lasted only four years largely due to the impact of the 1979 US hostage crisis in Iran.

After leaving the White House, the Democratic leader continued to influence the political life of the country from a progressive perspective, despite the fact that the most conservatives continued to criticize his management.

From the Carter Center, since 1982 he has promoted progress in election observation, human rights and public health around the world. The former president has also written about two dozen books since leaving the presidency and teaches catechism at his church in Plains.