Former US President Jimmy Carter sits after delivering a lecture at the House of Lords in London, Britain February 3, 2016. — Reuters pic
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 — Former US president Jimmy Carter has been hospitalised for treatment for a “minor pelvis fracture” after a fall at his home in Plains, Georgia, the Carter Center said today. The 95-year-old suffered the fall — his second this month — yesterday and was admitted to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center “for observation and treatment for a minor pelvic fracture,” the centre said on Twitter.Carter, who was president from 1977 to 1981, injured his head October 6 in a fall at his home but turned up the next day to volunteer at a Habitat for Humanity site with a black eye and a bandage covering 14 stitches.