KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 27): Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who is still receiving treatment at the National Heart Institute (IJN), was on Tuesday taken out for a short outing to a cafe at the Pavilion shopping mall in Bukit Damansara. His press secretary, Sufi Yusoff, said Mahathir was taken out by IJN medical officers to the cafe, accompanied by his wife Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali and IJN chief executive officer Professor Datuk Seri Dr Mohamed Ezani Md Taib, and spent 40 minutes there. Sufi said Mahathir was then taken back to IJN and has not yet been allowed to return home and will continue to receive treatment at IJN. He said visits are still limited to immediate family. The 100-year-old leader was admitted to IJN on Jan 6 after reportedly falling at his residence in The Mines, Seri Kembangan, near here and was confirmed to have suffered a fractured right hip.

Source: The Edge Markets January 27, 2026 10:32 UTC