Jackie Selebi has been discharged from Steve Biko Academic Hospital this week and admitted straight into a cell at the Pretoria Prison.
|||Former police commissioner Jackie Selebi was discharged from Steve Biko Academic Hospital this week and admitted straight into a cell at the Pretoria Prison after an almost three-month hospital stay.
The 61-year-old disgraced former police chief was moved from the hospital’s nephrology unit into a specially prepared cell within the prison’s hospital unit, but not before doctors and hospital managers checked it to ensure it met the desired levels of cleanliness.
Zachary Modise, the deputy commissioner of Correctional Services, said that a resident doctor would monitor Selebi constantly.
Two nurses had been trained by the hospital to take care of him, and Selebi had himself been trained to administer his own treatment.
Selebi suffers from diabetes and kidney disease, and has been in and out of hospital since he collapsed at his Waterkloof, Pretoria home at the beginning of December, apparently from shock after the Supreme Court turned down his appeal against a 15-year jail sentence for corruption.
He was admitted to the Jacaranda Hospital where he was treated until he handed himself over to Correctional Services authorities.
Officials said he would go back to the hospital for assessments and check-ups from time to time. - Weekend Argus