Nobel literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez returned to his Mexico City home on Tuesday after a week-long hospitalization for pneumonia, but officials said he remains in “delicate” condition.
The 87-year-old Colombian writer, who has lived in the Mexican capital for more than three decades, arrived in an ambulance as a throng of journalists waited outside his home, which was guarded by police.
Garcia Marquez had overcome a lung infection after “quite severe pneumonic symptoms,” Health Minister Mercedes Juan told Radio Formula.
The treatment had to be “very special due to the writer’s age,” she said, adding that he will receive oxygen therapy at home to prevent a new infection.
An oxygen tank was delivered to his home along with a medical bed and yellow roses, his favorite color.
When the ambulance arrived, his assistants held up bed sheets to prevent journalists from filming or taking pictures of Garcia Marquez.
