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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mandela-discharged-from-hospital.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Former South African President Nelson Mandela is taken on a stretcher from the Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-mandela-discharged-from-hospital.jpg" alt="Former South African President Nelson Mandela is taken on a stretcher from the Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Former South African leader Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital, the country&#8217;s surgeon general said.</p>
<p>V J Ramlakan said there was no need to panic about the health of Mr Mandela, 92, who spent two days in a Johannesburg hospital undergoing specialised tests.</p>
<p>He said Mr Mandela had been treated for an acute respiratory infection, responded well to treatment and had been discharged to receive home-based care.</p>
<p>Mr Mandela has a history of respiratory problems after contracting tuberculosis during his 27 years in prison and undergoes regular hospital check-ups, but his latest visit to Milpark Hospital had stretched into an unusually long stay.</p>
<p>Mr Ramlakan said: &#8220;Dr Mandela is in high spirits and has been visited by his family and friends. Medically, at present, there is no need to panic.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Mandela had been admitted to Milpark Hospital on Wednesday, and there was speculation about his condition. Journalists have been camped outside the hospital and outside his Johannesburg home.</p>
<p>&#8220;He is receiving the best treatment from the best available health professionals in this country, and that should reassure all of us that there is no need of us to panic,&#8221; deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe told a news conference.</p>
<p>Mr Mandela became South Africa&#8217;s first black president in 1994 and stepped down after serving one term in 1999, largely retiring from public life in 2004.</p>
<p>The public has seen only glimpses of him recently, the last time being in November when his office released photos of a private meeting with members of the US and South African football teams. </p>
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