Premier Menachem Begin is suffering a 25 percent loss of vision in his right eye and a 10 percent loss in his left eye. This was announced last night by Hadassah Hospital neurologist Sylvan Lavie who said if was still too early to tell whether Begin’s eye trouble would be permanent or would improve in the course of his recuperation from the blood clot blocking a vein to his brain that hospitalized him last Thursday.
The other symptoms Begin suffered on admission, giddiness and loss of balance, have now been rectified, the doctors say, and the Premier is walking about his hospital suite without difficulty. The vision impairment means that Begin cannot read as much or as fast as he is wont to do. Nevertheless, the Premier is reading press and official papers, as well as receiving family, friends and Cabinet ministers at his bedside.
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