Mother Teresa’s Health Worsens

Mon., Nov. 25, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

Mother Teresa suffered a recurrence of the heart problems that put her in the hospital three days ago and has developed trouble breathing, doctors said Sunday.

The 86-year-old nun was well enough, however, to eat a breakfast of bread and porridge and a lunch of chicken stew and fruit salad.

Mother Teresa has been on oxygen in the intensive care unit since being taken to Woodlands Nursing Home on Friday complaining of chest pains.

Encouraged by the progress she had been making, doctors briefly stopped her intravenous drip Saturday night, hospital medical director Sudipto Kumar Sen said.

But Mother Teresa developed breathing difficulties, and doctors resumed the drips after detecting a recurrence of her problems with her left ventricle, Sen said.

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