Oldest living ex-president Jimmy Carter, 94, has surgery after fall

America’s oldest living former President Jimmy Carter has had surgery after falling and breaking his hip.

Jimmy Carter, 94, suffered the injury while setting off on a turkey hunt from his home in Georgia Monday morning.

He was rushed to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia, for surgery, which is said to have been a success.

Mr Carter, who turns 95 in October, is being cared for by doctors and his wife Rosalyn.

A statement issued on his behalf joked: ‘President Carter said his main concern is that turkey season ends this week, and he has not reached his limit.’

‘He hopes the State of Georgia will allow him to rollover the unused limit to next year.’

Carter has reportedly been living a humble, unassuming life in his hometown, Plains, Georgia, with his 92-year-old wife Rosalyn after serving as president from 1977 to 1981.

This was not the first health scare for Carter, who battled was diagnosed with melanoma in 2015.

The cancer spread to his brain, but he underwent radiation treatment and later announced that he was cancer-free to the Sunday school class he teaches at Maranatha Baptist Church in December 2015.

Before he was rid of the cancer, he said he felt ‘perfectly at ease with whatever comes,’ according to Inside Edition.

At a news conference, Carter later said: ‘I’ve had a wonderful life. I’ve had thousands of friends, I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.’