Presidential spokesman Barazan Sheikh Othman made the announcement on Thursday, adding that the president will leave the country Thursday on Friday.
“So far, President Jalal Talabani’s health is stable and we would like to confirm that there’s an improvement in the president’s condition compared with yesterday. There is a tangible improvement,” Iraqi Deputy Health Minister Issam Namiq said at a press conference, adding that Talabani has “passed the dangerous stage.”
The Iraqi president was taken to a hospital in the capital Baghdad on Monday night.
A team of Iranian and German doctors are treating Talabani in Iraq.
On Tuesday, Iraqi authorities denied media reports that he had passed away.
In January 2012, Talabani had spinal surgery in Germany. He was treated for exhaustion and lung inflammation in Jordan in 2007 and underwent heart surgery in the United States a year later.
He was elected Iraq’s first-ever Kurdish president two years after the 2003 ouster of former dictator Saddam Hussein following the US-led invasion of the country. He began his second term in office in 2010.
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