The World - News from Sept. 10, 1989
Mother Teresa will be fitted with a temporary heart pacemaker because of an irregular heartbeat, doctors in Calcutta said. The 79-year-old nun was admitted to Woodland Nursing Home last Tuesday with cardiac problems and a fever. Doctors in the Indian city said she suffered a setback Saturday and that her irregular pulse was not responding adequately to medication. Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
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