Daughter of Singapore’s founding father dies at 69

The estranged sister of Singapore’s former Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong died on Wednesday (October 9, 2024) at 69, after being recognized with progressive supranuclear palsy in 2020.

The demise of Lee Wei Ling, a health care provider, was introduced by their youthful brother Lee Hsien Yang on Fb.

The siblings are the youngsters of Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and have been embroiled in a public dispute round what to do with their late father’s home after the elder Lee died in 2015.

The previous PM Lee, now a senior Minister within the cupboard, wrote on Fb that regardless of the rift between him and his siblings, “I held nothing towards Ling, and continued to do no matter I may to make sure her welfare”.

He described his sister as a fighter who was “fiercely loyal to buddies, sympathised instinctively with the underdog, and would mobilise actively to do one thing when she noticed unfairness, or suspected wrongdoing”.

The late physician earned the celebrated President’s scholarship and topped her cohort in medical college. Lee by no means married and stayed along with her mother and father till their deaths.

She helped arrange Singapore’s Nationwide Neuroscience Institute and served as its director for 11 years. She additionally commonly contributed columns to the nationwide broadsheet The Straits Instances.

Senior minister Lee stated his sister had recognized herself earlier than the medical doctors did. “She took it along with her regular fortitude and stoicism, and posted about it as a kind of issues in life to be borne and endured. She knew what it meant, and made the more often than not she had at the same time as her well being declined,” he wrote.

When saying her sickness, Wei Ling wrote: “My instant response to the information was ‘ren’, or endure in Chinese language, of which the standard character has a knife above a coronary heart. I’ve been practising ‘ren’ since I used to be in Chinese language college, recognising that life has many disagreeable, unavoidable conditions.”