Pistorius family mum on Oscar hospital scare
Controversy around Oscar’s injuries in prison.
The Pistorius family has remained silent on allegations that the former Paralympian superstar Oscar Pistorius had been rushed to hospital on Saturday morning.
Family spokesperson Anneliese Burgess said the family would not be responding to media reports at this stage.
“We are referring all enquiries to correctional services.”
Numerous attempts have been made to get comment from correctional services, who could not confirm nor deny that Pistorius had been rushed to hospital on Saturday.
Controversy followed after City Press reported the Paralympian was rushed to Kalafong hospital after sustaining injuries to his wrists.
The report claimed the former Paralympian injured his wrists in his prison cell.
“Correctional services said Pistorius claimed he had injured himself after falling out of bed. An inmate situated close to the hospital section told City Press that Pistorius had injured himself intentionally,” the news report stated.
Blades were subsequently found in Pistorius’s cell during a search on Saturday afternoon.
A Kalafong hospital representative at the casualty department who asked not to be named said she was working on Saturday throughout the day and remembers nothing out of the ordinary.
“I don’t remember seeing anything special or different.”
Asked if police presence was increased at the hospital in one of the wards, she said not.
Unconfirmed reports stated Pistorius was back in Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre by Sunday afternoon where he was serving a six-year jail sentence for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
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