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Inquirer News, 6 Nov 2011
SINGAPORE – Singapore’s founding leader Lee Kuan Yew is fighting a neurological disease that is making it difficult for him to walk steadily, his daughter revealed Sunday.
“In my father’s case, sensory peripheral neuropathy has caused the conduction of sensation from his legs to his spinal cord to be impaired. This makes his walking unsteady, as many Singaporeans have already noticed,” she wrote.
“His day-to-day condition now fluctuates. On some days he is fairly steady and on other days his balance is poor. The problem is limited to the sensory nerves outside his central nervous system,” his daughter wrote. Full story
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Lee Kuan Yew suffering from neurological disease, says daughter
Inquirer News, 6 Nov 2011SINGAPORE – Singapore’s founding leader Lee Kuan Yew is fighting a neurological disease that is making it difficult for him to walk steadily, his daughter revealed Sunday.
“In my father’s case, sensory peripheral neuropathy has caused the conduction of sensation from his legs to his spinal cord to be impaired. This makes his walking unsteady, as many Singaporeans have already noticed,” she wrote.
“His day-to-day condition now fluctuates. On some days he is fairly steady and on other days his balance is poor. The problem is limited to the sensory nerves outside his central nervous system,” his daughter wrote. Full story
Related:
Singapore's Lee fighting nerve disease: daughter - AFP
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