Kenya PM Odinga out of hospital Sunday
Prime Minister Raila Odinga (left) shares a light moment with the German Ambassador to Kenya Margit Hellwig-Boete (right) when she visited with him at Nairobi Hospital July 1, 2010. Mr Odinga will leave the hospital Sunday. Photo/FILE
Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga will Sunday leave the Nairobi Hospital, where he has spent five days recuperating from a head operation.
Mr Odinga is expected to address a news conference at his Nairobi home later Sunday.
The PM will plant a tree at the hospital after he is discharged at around 10 a.m.
Mr Odinga, 65, was admitted at the Nairobi Hospital on Monday just hours after he had presided over the clean-up of the Nairobi Dam, where he looked ill and exhausted.
He had complained of fatigue and intermittent headache and doctors performed a head operation to relieve pressure that had built up outside his brain.
Banged head
His doctor neurosurgeon Livingston Oluoch Olunya said the pressure may have been caused by the PM banging his head in his car weeks ago.
Before the surgery, the PM, one of Kenya’s most energetic politicians, was on a whirlwind national tour to campaign for a new constitution that will be subjected to a referendum on August 4.
On Saturday, the Yes campaign took its campaigns to President Kibaki's stronghold of Nyeri, the first such major rally in the PM's absence.
