According to reports, 98-year-old former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was hospitalized again. A spokesman for his office confirmed on the 13th that he had been admitted to the National Heart Center, but did not disclose the reason for admission.

He has been in and out of the hospital many times due to heart and lung problems in recent years, and was admitted to hospital three times in 2022 alone. He suffered a heart attack in 1989 and underwent heart bypass surgery in 2007.