Shot priest on the mend
2007-03-04 20:35
Pretoria - An Irish priest who was shot at Leratong Hospice in Atteridgeville last Thursday was expected to leave a Pretoria hospital by Wednesday, SABC radio news reported on Sunday.
Doctors at the Zuid Afrikaans Hospital in Sunnyside, Pretoria, said Father Kieran Creagh's condition had improved dramatically.
Creagh was shot twice in the chest and had an emergency operation on Friday.
He was expected to be moved from the hospital's intensive-care unit on Sunday, the report said.
Creagh, a director at the hospice, was the first person in Africa to be injected with a new HIV-Aids vaccine.
The priest founded the Leratong Hospice for people in the final stages of HIV-Aids.
It was built in 2004 with money raised by Creagh.
- SAPA