Israel's former president and prime minister, Shimon Peres, 93, was taken to hospital on Tuesday night after reportedly suffering a stroke.
Peres was taken to Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer near Tel Aviv after telling his doctor that he felt weak.
Initially, the office of the ninth president said Peres was “conscious and in stable condition, but suddenly, his condition took a turn for the worse. It was announced that he was put under sedation to ease the continued treatment and connected to 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.
The doctor had successfully implanted a pacemaker for Peres a week ago. Peres was diagnosed in July with atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm, according to the 'Jerusalem Post'.
In January, Peres had a heart attack and then cardiac angioplasty to open a blocked artery. He was hospitalized twice more with chest pains.
