“But somehow, the doctors turned me around and eventually I was discharged and am quite well – not 100 per cent, but enough for me to continue with the little work that I have to do,” he said during an appreciation ceremony for the medical experts and staff who had treated him.
Dr Mahathir said Malaysia has made tremendous progress, especially in the medical sector, and he believes Malaysians are capable of doing what others can do. Dr Mahathir said when he suffered his first heart attack in 1989, he was told to go to the Mayo Clinic in the United States, but he chose to be treated at Hospital Kuala Lumpur.
“But today, we can even perform surgery on 17-day-old conjoined twins,” he said, referring to the premature conjoined twins who were successfully separated by a surgical team at Hospital Tunku Azizah in Kuala Lumpur recently.
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