California IN BRIEF : LA JOLLA : Mother Teresa Now in Good Condition
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Mother Teresa’s condition has been upgraded from fair to good as she recovers from pneumonia and can now walk with assistance, a hospital spokeswoman said. “Mother Teresa has told her doctors that she feels much better and looks forward to returning to her work,” Sue Pondrom of Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation said. The 81-year-old Roman Catholic nun, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her charity work in Calcutta, was moved from the hospital’s intensive care unit to a private room Wednesday.
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