SINGAPORE: Dr Lee Wei Ling, the daughter of Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, died on Wednesday (Oct 9). She was 69. Her death was announced by her brother, Mr Lee Hsien Yang, in a Facebook post shortly before 6am on Wednesday. He said Dr Lee died at home.
Dr Lee Wei Ling, the daughter of Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, died on Oct 9, 2024. SINGAPORE: Dr Lee Wei Ling, the daughter of Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, died on Wednesday . She was 69.
Describing her as"fiercely loyal to friends", Mr Lee remembered her as someone who"sympathised instinctively with the underdog, and would mobilise actively to do something when she saw unfairness, or suspected wrongdoing". "We turned off the tap so that water was not wasted, we walked out of a room and the lights and fan were off. You don't waste water, you don't waste electricity."
Dr Lee loved animals and initially had ambitions of becoming a veterinarian. Dissuaded by her parents, she took up medicine instead, topping her class at the University of Singapore , noted Mr Lee."She brought to medicine the same intensity and commitment she did to everything, and developed close bonds with her patients, many of whom she treated over many years," said Mr Lee.
"Sadly, after he passed away in 2015, a shadow fell between my siblings and me, and I was unable to fulfil his wish," said Mr Lee Hsien Loong.Dr Lee revealed in 2020 that she had progressive supranuclear palsy . She described the brain disease as a"Parkinson’s-like illness that slows physical movements, impairs fast eye movements and balance", eventually resulting in death.
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