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HILO — Doctors will decide today when Mayor Harry Kim will be able to leave the hospital.
Janet Snyder, the mayor’s spokeswoman, said the news was delivered Tuesday morning by Managing Director Wil Okabe, the county’s No. 2 executive and acting mayor, at a briefing for lava emergency workers at Hawaii County Civil Defense headquarters in Hilo.
The mayor has been hospitalized since Saturday after suffering a mild heart attack, officially his sixth.
According to Snyder, Okabe told those assembled this is the longest period of time the mayor has been in the hospital that he can remember.
Snyder said Okabe reiterated the 78-year-old Kim “is doing OK.”