Shimon Peres rushed back to hospital with chest pains
Former president, 92, suffers mild cardiac arrhythmia, a week after being taken to the hospital following a minor heart attack
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Just over week after suffering a mild heart attack, former president Shimon Peres, 92, was taken to a hospital complaining of chest pains on Sunday night.
Paramedics dispatched to his home determined the former statesman suffered a mild cardiac arrhythmia, and decided to take him to hospital where he was to remain overnight for observation.
Peres was fully conscious and in stable condition, his spokesperson said.
“It was diagnosed that he was suffering from an irregular heartbeat. Due to the diagnosis, his doctors decided that the 9th President will spend the night in hospital for observation and testing,” his spokesperson said in a statement.
On January 14, Peres was rushed to Tel Hashomer Hospital after complaining of chest pains. On discovering that he had a narrowed artery, doctors performed cardiac catheterization and kept him in the hospital for observation and tests for five days.
When he left the Tel Aviv-area hospital, Peres issued a short statement, thanking the medical and nursing teams, and saying their treatment reminded him of the “spirit of the founder of Tel Hashomer, who said that everyone was equal and that you had to treat the patient not the illness – to treat the people themselves.”
Peres had been scheduled to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, last week, but canceled the trip because of the health issues on a doctor’s recommendation.
Several weeks ago, rumors flooded the Internet that Peres, who has remained active despite his age, had died. A spokesman quashed the claims, poking fun at the reports.
“Shimon Peres would like to clarify that he is alive and well,” a statement from his office said. “The only thing preoccupying him at this moment is his dinner.”
Peres, now retired, had a 55-year political career, most recently as Israel’s president from 2007 to 2014. Considered the last surviving member of Israel’s founding fathers, he served as prime minister twice — from 1984 to 1986 as part of a rotational government, and in 1995 after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. He spent most of his career in the Labor party.
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