Taipei Deputy Mayor Tsai Ping-kun (???) will remain in hospital under observation after coming out of surgery for hemorrhagic stroke, the Taipei City Hospital said Tuesday.
His vital signs are currently stable, but the coming week will be a key observation period, Lin Chih-ling (???), who is deputy superintendent of the hospital’s Renai Branch, said.
According to Lin, the deputy mayor has been placed in an intensive care unit for treatment after undergoing a surgical operation to remove blood clots in his right cerebral hemisphere.
The surgery, which took 1.5 hours, was successful.
Tsai collapsed while attending a private dinner party with Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (???) on Monday evening, and was subsequently rushed by ambulance to the Taipei City Hospital’s Renai Branch, where he underwent surgery after receiving a computerized tomography, according to Vivienne Wei (???), deputy spokesperson of the Taipei City government.
Lin Wen-hsiung (???), a physician at the Renai branch’s department of neurosurgery, said Tsai would be closely monitored for his intracranial pressure and blood pressure, but added that no further details could be disclosed out of respect for his privacy.
Asked what could have sparked his intracerebral hemorrhaging, Lin said high blood pressure or uncontrolled hypertension was the main factor, while the weather could have also played a role.
Huang Shan-shan (???), who is one of the three deputy mayors of Taipei, said on Tuesday that the city government’s management would continue to operate as normal, and that someone would be assigned to handle Tsai’s work for the time being.
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel