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Minister Sofia Simba improving in hospital
2007-10-28 10:18:08
By Peter Mwangu
Community Development, Gender and Children Minister Sophia Simba, who is admitted at Hindul Mandal Hospital in Dar es Salaam since Friday, is improving.
``I am making a speedy recovery. I am thankful of thee medical staff for the relentless efforts to save my life because I was in a very poor condition when I was brought here as I was off balance,`` said the minister when visited at her hospital bed yesterday.
Minister Simba added: ``I felt dizzy and lost balance in the past and in order to reduce the severity of the problem I am fitted with a pacemaker.
Doctors are assuring me that I will make a full recovery after prolonged medication following intensifying faints in the past few months.
The minister`s health worsened a few moments after learning of the death of her deputy, Salome Mbatia, in a car crash in Njombe, on Wednesday.
Simba said: ``I was shocked when I got the news of her death in that fateful road accident.
She was really a hard working lady of a kind and one of our last discussions together was for women to attain 50 percent represe ntation in Parliament.``
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