Desmond Tutu home from the hospital

Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu is finally out of the Intensive Care Unit but would still have to remain confined to the hospital as per multiple reports.

“Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was no longer receiving intravenous treatment but would remain under observation in hospital for another few days”, Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu said in a statement on the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation website.

Arriving home this morning in a dressing gown with the words, “Feet Up Arch” embroidered on the back, the Tutu family said Tutu paid warm tribute to his team of doctors for their expertise and generosity.

Tutu, 83, was admitted to hospital on July 14 after his doctor decided he was not responding to a course of antibiotics.

“My father is not quite as young as he looks so we recognize that his energy is waning a little bit”, Mpho Tutu said during the public update on her father’s health.

The treatment was not related to the prostate cancer he had been managing for the past 18 years. His most recent public appearance was earlier this month when the couple renewed their vows after 60 years of marriage in ceremonies in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for campaigning against apartheid.