“The 9th President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres, suffered a major stroke today”, hospital director Yitzhak Kreiss said on late Tuesday evening, “He is being treated by the best doctors in the hospital from across the medical fields”.
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Shimon Peres’ son Chemi Peres has spoken to the media saying: “These are hard hours for me and my family”.
“My father is very special”.
“These hours are not easy for me and my family”.
Dr Rafi Valden said Peres was responsive – he had squeezed his hand. It seems that we will soon be required to make decisions but not at the moment.
“We are receiving many messages both from Israel and outside Israel, from all of our friends and from the people who love and know about this man and they are many”, he continued. Peres has been sedated and intubated while doctors treat him, and is scheduled to undergo a CT scan.
He suffered a mild heart attack in January and underwent a cardiac angioplasty to open a blocked artery. He was hospitalized twice more with chest pains.
The post Israel’s ex-president Shimon Peres in serious condition after stroke appeared first on Punch Newspapers. He was taken to Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer for tests. “It’s hard to foresee, but he’s in stable condition and there’s no immediate danger to his life”, Army Radio quoted him saying. Dr. Shlomi Matezsky, one of the doctors treating Peres, told Channel 2 TV that Peres had regained consciousness and was on a respirator.
Walden said afterwards “we sedated him again just to keep him as quiet and peaceful as possible so as to enable the brain to recover”.
Doctors later decided not to operate for the time being.
Over a seven-decade career, he has held virtually every senior political office, including three stints as prime minister and extended terms as foreign, defence and finance minister.
He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Israel’s former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for a 1993 interim peace deal, although that pact never hardened into a lasting treaty.
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Peres retired from public office in 2014 after his seven-year term as president ended.
