Oscar hospitalised after heart scare
Disgraced Paralympic athlete spends the night at Kalafong Hospital’s prison ward.
Disgraced Paralympic blade runner and convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius spent the night at the Kalafong Hospital’s prison ward after he was rushed there with chest pains yesterday.
Singabakho Nxumalo of correctional services said he would be kept overnight for observation following doctor’s orders.
Earlier yesterday, Nxumalo said Pistorius was taken to an outside hospital facility for a medical examination “and is expected back in the [prison] facility later today”.
According to an insider at the Atteridgeville Prison, west of Pretoria, where Pistorius is serving his sentence, he had a mild heart attack and was rushed to hospital at 8am yesterday. He was brought to hospital by armed guards and admitted to the prison ward at the hospital behind locked gates.
Pistorius family spokesperson Johan van Wyk said Pistorius was “okay” and he also confirmed that he was admitted to the hospital for chest pains.
Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day in 2013. Pistorius fired four shots through the bathroom door at his former house in Silver Lakes Estate, in Pretoria. He testified in court that he thought there was a burglar in his bathroom.
Last year in August, Pistorius was rushed to the same hospital after sustaining injuries to his wrists in jail. At the time, Nxumalo said the Paralympian told authorities he had injured himself after falling out of bed.
But an inmate situated close to the hospital section told City Press that Pistorius had injured himself intentionally.
Pistorius was transferred from the Kgosi Mampuru II Prison to the Atteridgeville Correctional Centre last year as the facility was better equipped to accommodate him, Nxumalo said.
Pistorius was taken to an outside hospital facility for a medical examination, and is expected back in the prison facility later today. Singabakho Nxumalo Correctional services