KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s nearly 100-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has been discharged from the hospital, almost two weeks after he was admitted, his office said on Tuesday (October 29). Admitted due to respiratory tract infection.

“Mahathir was officially discharged from hospital yesterday (Monday),” his office told AFP, adding that he “will be working in the office as usual.”

Mahathir turned 99 in July, but was hospitalized with a “persistent cough” a few days after his birthday.

He spent almost three months in the hospital during another stay earlier this year.

Mahathir governed Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and again in 2018, when he was 92, but his coalition collapsed two years later due to infighting.

Mahathir lost his parliamentary seat in a shock defeat in 2022 but remains active in politics and has emerged as a leading critic of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.