Former US President Jimmy Carter was admitted to a hospital for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, caused by bleeding due to his recent falls, his spokeswoman said.
Former US President Jimmy Carter is scheduled to undergo a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain on Tuesday morning at Emory University Hospital, Deanna Congileo said.
95-year-old Carter was admitted to the hospital on Monday evening. Pressure has increased on Carter's brain caused by bleeding due to recent falls. The 39th president who had three falls this year is being kept company by his wife Rosalynn.
After the first fall, Carter required hip replacement surgery. Later, he travelled to Nashville, Tennessee, and helped build a Habitat for Humanity home after getting 14 stitches to his face following a fall on Oct. 6. On Oct 21, he was briefly hospitalised after fracturing his pelvis.
In 2015 he received a dire cancer diagnosis, but survived and has since said has been cancer-free.
Carter was elected to office 1976 and served one term in office. Democrat Carter was defeated in his bid for re-election by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Carter's message post-presidency has been that of Jesus. For almost four decades now, the former president has been teaching Sunday school twice a month at Maranatha Baptist Church in his tiny hometown of Plains in southwest Georgia despite ill health at 95.
Carter has previously said that he is 'at ease' with the idea of dying as he believes in life after death.
Rev Tony Lowden, Carter's pastor, urged “the whole country to be in prayer for him.”
