2023-12-07 09:22:02
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Lech Walesa, Poland’s former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, said Thursday that he was improving after being hospitalized with COVID-19.
In a post on Facebook, Walesa, 80, appears lying on a bed with his thumbs up and a short phrase in which he says that he believes he will get over it again.
The former communist dissident has suffered multiple health problems in recent years. He suffers from diabetes and a coronary problem for which he has to use a pacemaker.
Two days before, a photo posted on his Facebook page showed the former president in a hospital bed with an oxygen mask and the text “Covid gave me.” Her assistant, Marek Kaczmar, told Polish media that Walesa was in serious condition but was receiving treatment at a hospital in Gdansk, the Baltic port city where she lives.
It is the second time that Walesa has passed the coronavirus.
Walesa led the pro-democracy movement Solidarity since 1980, which nine years later led to the peaceful overthrow of the Polish communist regime and inspired other countries to free themselves from Moscow’s domination.
In 1983 he won the Nobel Peace Prize and between 1990 and 1995 he served as the first president of Poland elected by popular vote.
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