Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/05
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan, Lu Hsin-hui and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, March 5 (CNA) A retired colonel who sustained a severe head injury in a protest
Photo taken from Miao Te-sheng’s (繆德生) Facebook page.
on Feb. 27 against the government’s plan to cut pensions for military personnel died Monday after his family agreed to take him off life support.
During the protest, 62-year-old Miao Te-sheng (繆德生) of the Blue Sky Actions Alliance was trying to climb the wall of a legislative building to raise the national flag when he fell from a height of about 5-6 meters.
Miao hit his head when he landed on the ground, and went into cardiac arrest. He was then rushed to National Taiwan University Hospital and was resuscitated there, but remained in a coma and under observation in the intensive care unit.
After several days of care, the hospital announced Monday he was brain dead, and his family decided at around 2:50 p.m. to take him off equipment that was keeping him alive.
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