KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 — Dr Lee Wei Ling, daughter of Singapore's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, passed away early today at the age of 69.
She was also the younger sister of Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Her passing was announced by her younger brother Lee Hsien Yang in a Facebook post.
He said Dr Lee died at home but did not specify her cause of death.
"No flowers, please. Donations to the following charities would be meaningful to Wei Ling: Canossa Mission Singapore, Parkinson Society Singapore, Total Well-Being SG Limited," Hsien Yang wrote.
In 2020, Dr Lee revealed that she had been diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy.
A neurologist and epileptologist during her lifetime, she described her disease on Facebook as "a rather nasty brain disease which starts with a Parkinson-like illness" and followed by "difficulty swallowing, choking aspiration, pneumonia, and death — for the fortunate."
— Bernama
