Taipei Deputy Mayor Tsai Ping-kun (蔡炳坤) was admitted to an intensive care unit after surgery for a hemorrhagic stroke, Taipei City Hospital said yesterday.
Tsai arrived at an emergency room in an ambulance at 7:49pm on Monday, said Lin Chih-lin (林志陵), deputy superintendent of the hospital’s Renai branch, adding that Tsai was unconscious and had high blood pressure when he arrived.
“We performed an emergency computed tomography scan on his brain and other examinations, which found massive bleeding on the right side of the brain and midline shift,” Lin said.
An emergency craniotomy was performed to remove blood clots, an external ventricular drain
Taipei, June 13 (CNA) Taiwan on Monday reported 45,110 new COVID-19 cases, including 29 contracted abroad, and 109 deaths from the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
Taipei, June 1 (CNA) Taiwan on Wednesday reported 88,293 new COVID-19 cases, an increase of more than 7,500 from the previous day, and 122 deaths from the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
Doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 for children and adolescents were delivered to local governments yesterday, and vaccinations are to start today in some cities and counties, the Central Epidemic Command Center said yesterday.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that 403,200 doses of the vaccines for children aged five to 11 as their first shot, and for adolescents aged 12 to 17 as their booster shot, had been delivered.
The schedules for vaccinations at hospitals and schools differ in each city or county, based on local health departments’ arrangements, he said.
About 1.62 million
Taipei, May 23 (CNA) Taiwan is expected to start the rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT) COVID-19 vaccine for children and adolescents on Wednesday, according to Cabinet spokesperson Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成).