Kenyan prime minister leaves hospital 6 days after procedure to drain fluids from his head

Kenyan prime minister leaves hospital

NAIROBI, Kenya — A spokesman says Kenya’s prime minister has been discharged from the hospital six days after doctors drilled a hole in his head to drain fluids that were putting pressure on his brain.

Prime ministerial spokesman Dennis Onyango says Raila Odinga was released from the hospital Sunday morning and is resting at his Nairobi home. TV stations showed images of Odinga planting a tree seedling outside the hospital before leaving.

The prime minister was admitted to the hospital late Monday.

Odinga became prime minister when he signed a power-sharing deal with President Mwai Kibaki to end the country’s 2007-2008 postelection violence in which more than 1,000 people died.