A question of health for world’s leaders

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THE unending saga of accusing the other of ill health, neurological disorder and therefore unfit to occupy the office of the president of the United States, continues with two geriatrics in the fray.

While the incumbent Donald Trump leaves no stone unturned to insinuate about “Sleeping Joe” , it is Trump himself who is at the centre of the storm with the latest book by Michael Schmidt, who claimed that Trump actually had “mini strokes” and that Vice-President Mike Pence was on standby after an unusually early annual medical check-up, last year.

Abe had done so earlier also in 2007, when he had publicly declared his struggles with ulcerative colitis, and yet again, the Japanese nationalist threw in the towel, a year before the end of his tenure. He claims that the treatment that he is undergoing will not allow him adequate time to carry out his prime ministerial functions and therefore, “I made the judgment I should not continue my job as the prime minister”.

The 85-year-old former Emperor had surgery for prostate cancer and heart bypass, and therefore thought it best to pass the sacred sword and jewel on to someone who was fit enough to bear the responsibility. In his second Prime Ministerial term in 1953 he again had a stroke, which was deliberately kept away from the public, as Churchill went about his stuttering ways without making an apparent fuss about obvious ill health. Not coming clean on one’s health is often the trait that is displayed by political leaders who have dictatorial streaks.

 

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