Former President and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres remains in a state of “critical but stable” after his stroke, his doctors said Wednesday citing signs of improvement.
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There was “certain optimism after doctors “lessened the dose of sedation”, he said, adding the former president was being sedated and ventilated again to let his brain recover”.
The implant was recommended by Peres’s doctors, including personal physician Walden, after he was diagnosed in July with atrial fibrillation. “We are keeping him sedated to prevent him from getting excited by his surroundings”.
Get Well Shimon Peres, Man of Peace- Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) September 13, 2016You are in my thoughts and prayers @PresidentPeres. His spokeswoman Ayelet Frisch said Tuesday was no exception, waking early to read the daily newspaper before delivering an hour-long lecture and then uploaded a video to his Facebook account in which he encouraged the public to buy locally made products.
“We were happy to see that when there was a short pause in the anesthetics, we realised that he’s responsive, that he’s probably attentive to what we’re saying to him”. In that role, Peres concluded the Oslo Peace Accords, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 with Rabin and Yasser Arafat.
“All parameters are stable, blood pressure, heart rate, blood saturation”, said the doctor to reporters earlier in the day.
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Mr Peres was rushed to hospital on Tuesday after feeling ill and after a battery of tests was diagnosed to have suffered a stroke.
In January, Mr Peres was hospitalised twice after heart complications, and underwent surgery to widen an artery.
Writing on Twitter, Netanyahu said, “Shimon, we love you and all the people wish you a [speedy] recovery”.
After being discharged, he told reporters he was “so happy to return to work, that was the whole objective of this operation”. “His devotion to the state of Israel is not doubted by anybody”, Ephraim Imbar, Director of the Begin-Sadat Center told The Media Line. In a career spanning almost 70 years, he has served in a dozen cabinets and was twice a Labour prime minister.
Born in Poland in 1923, Peres emigrated to what was then British mandatory Palestine when he was 11 and joined the Zionist movement in the 1940s. He became director-general of the Defense Ministry at age 29 and was a member of the Knesset from 1959 to 2007.
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Peres has been a part of nearly every major development in Israel since the country’s founding in 1948.
