Doctors treating Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said today that they expected the 77-year-old to be released and resume his duties within a day after suffering a mild stroke.
Medics said that Sharon, who is running for re-election early next year, had not lost consciousness at any stage since he suffered the stroke on Sunday evening and said a series of tests had shown he was otherwise in good health.
'He looks fine, feels fine, he wants to go home,' said Yair Barenboim, director general of the Hadassah hospital.
'We hope to release him tomorrow,' Barenboim said at the hospital on the western outskirts of Jerusalem where Sharon is being treated.
Tamir Ben-Hur, a neurologist at the hospital, added that the prime minister would be able to work as soon as he was released.
Sharon, who suffers from a weight problem, was rushed to hospital after reportedly complaining of being unwell while being driven from his official residence in Jerusalem to his ranch in the southern Negev desert.
But he was well enough later in the evening to talk with his sons and top aides as well as finding time to phone some of the country's newspapers.
