Professor Rafi Walden, Mr Peres’ son-in-law and personal physician, said the 93-year-old had squeezed his hand the first time doctors had lessened his sedation.
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Shlomi Matezky, told Channel 2 TV early Wednesday morning, that doctors were meeting to decide how to proceed.
“Former president Peres’ doctors sedated and intubated him so as to best facilitate the continuation of his treatment”, it said.
When leaving hospital after his heart treatment in January, Peres told reporters he was “so happy to return to work, that was the whole objective of this operation”.
It said on Tuesday Peres had been “admitted to the Sheba Medical Center (Tel Hashomer) after suffering a stroke”.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spoken with the director of the hospital to receive an update, a spokesman said. He has since been sedated and placed on a respirator.
He was then taken for a computerized tomography (CT) scan of the brain for a “complete and accurate assessment of his condition”, the spokeswoman of his office said. But a wave of Palestinian suicide attacks left Peres struggling to defend the peace process, ultimately costing him the next election.
He said the bleeding in the brain had been halted and that Peres’ condition is “serious but stable”.
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres was hospitalized Tuesday evening after suffering a stroke and is now in a currently in an induced coma.
He won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in reaching an interim peace agreement with the Palestinians.
In January, Peres was hospitalised twice for heart trouble.
The former president never lost consciousness, his spokeswoman Ayelet Frisch told reporters. She gave no further details.
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