Taipei Times
Date:  Nov 30, 2015
By: Stacy Hsu  /  Staff reporter Staff reporter

Former president Lee Teng-hui’s (李登輝) condition has stabilized

Former president Lee Teng-hui, center, stands next to Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) Chairman Huang Kun-huei, right, and waves to attendees at the TSU’s 14th anniversary celebration in Taipei on Nov. 20. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

after he had a minor stroke, but he is to remain hospitalized under observation, Lee’s office said yesterday.

“Lee was sent to the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in the early hours of Friday after experiencing numbness in his right hand,” Lee’s office director Wang Yan-chun (王燕軍) said in a statement issued yesterday afternoon.

Following a series of examinations, Wang said the hospital concluded that Lee’s symptoms were caused by an embolism that occurred in the small peripheral arteries of the left hemisphere of his brain.