Mother Teresa has been hospitalized with a fever and cardiac problems but was in stable condition Thursday, her doctor said.
Mother Teresa developed a fever Tuesday night and was immediately admitted to the Woodlands Nursing Home in Calcutta. She then developed cardiac problems and was put on artificial respirators, said Asim Bardhan, her physician.Although there was no improvement in her health Thursday, Bardhan said she is in stable condition in the hospital's intensive care unit. He said it was not clear how long Mother Teresa would need to stay in hospital.
The hospital said Thursday the fever continued to persist but the cardiac problem had been corrected. It did not elaborate.
As news of Mother Teresa's illness spread, hundreds of telephone callers trying to find out about her condition jammed the hospital switchboard.
The frail Roman Catholic nun who will be 86 Tuesday has maintained a grueling schedule at her missionaries and orphanages in India and worldwide.
Five months ago, she broke a collar bone at her Missionaries of Charity headquarters in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta.
In 1983, she had a heart attack while meeting Pope John Paul II in Rome. A second heart attack nearly killed her in 1989, and she received a pacemaker.
She was 18 years old when she went to Dublin, Ireland, to take her vows and become a nun of Loretto, a teaching order that ran convent schools in India.