AMMAN, Jordan (AP) – Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who remains hospitalized in Jordan following his collapse over the weekend, was said to be recovering well Tuesday but is apparently not ready to go home yet.

“He’s in good shape, fully aware and doing well,” said Saad al-Hayyani, Iraq’s ambassador to Jordan. “There are no tests planned today.”

The envoy declined to say whether Talabani would be discharged from the King Hussein Medical City in Amman soon so he can return to Iraq.

Mr. Talabani, 73, fell ill Sunday in Sulaimaniyah, his hometown in northeastern Iraq, and was unconscious when he was rushed to the hospital there. But he recovered sufficiently to be flown to neighboring Jordan that night for treatment.

Mr. Al-Hayyani said Monday that Mr. Talabani had been suffering from exhaustion and a mild lung inflammation.
Yedkar Hikmat, Mr. Talabani’s personal physician, has dismissed rumors that the president has a heart problem.

“He did not suffer any heart attack. His heart is 100 percent good,” Mr. Hikmat told reporters at King Hussein Medical City on Monday.

Mr. Talabani last appeared in public in Sulaimaniyah on Saturday when he met American Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and Massoud Barzani, the leader of the Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq.

A member of Mr. Talabani’s party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, has said the president has a long history of fainting when he is exhausted. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.