Former US President Jimmy Carter, 98, asked to be transferred to his family home to spend the remaining time with his family members.
The Carter Foundation said in a statement, Saturday, that “President Carter has requested to be discharged from the hospital after spending intermittent periods of treatment there.”
The Carter family called for “respect for family privacy in these special circumstances,” and expressed its appreciation for all “the feelings of sympathy shown by Americans towards the health condition of their former President Carter.”
President Carter will receive “palliative care” at home, and he has been suffering for years from a series of health problems that required hospitalization several times in 2019, according to an AFP report.
Jimmy Carter is the oldest living former US president.
Carter is the godfather of the Camp David Accords that led in March 1979 to the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, and the Democrat was subjected to intense domestic criticism during the American hostage-taking crisis in Iran in 1979-1980.
After leaving the White House, he founded the Carter Center in 1982 to advance development, health and conflict resolution around the world.
In 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his “decades of tireless efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts.”