Nearly three weeks since Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat collapsed after suffering a stroke during a cabinet meeting at the Istana, the man is said to be recuperating well, according to the prime minister.
PM Lee Hsien Loong had gone to visit Heng at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s National Neuroscience Institute last evening, where he was “delighted to find him recovering well, and making steady progress”. Heng was even noted to be “fully lucid, communicative, and cheerful”.
Doctors have been satisfied with Heng’s recovery, though they’ve advised him not to receive visitors yet so that he can rest as much as possible. But hey, if the prime minister of Singapore wants to visit, the prime minister of Singapore gets what he wants.
“I told him we had made arrangements to look after his residents in Tampines while he recuperates,” PM Lee wrote. “He gave me two thumbs up.”
The 54-year-old minister had collapsed on the afternoon of May 12 and was promptly conveyed to hospital, where a CT scan revealed that he suffered an aneurysm. Neurosurgery carried out managed to relieve pressure in his brain.
In the aftermath of the incident, other ministers noted that the Finance Minister had been carrying “an incredible load” handling multiple major projects — prompting some concern that we might be expecting too much of our ministers. Then again, they better be — they don’t earn proportionately way more (in the millions) than the rest of the general population for nothing.
