Ex-Solidarity leader Wałęsa returns home from hospital
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
12.07.2017 12:18
Former Polish president and ex-Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa on Wednesday returned home from hospital after undergoing checks.
![Lech Wałęsa. Photo: Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich) (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://external.polskieradio.pl/files/28a01eed-433b-40fb-bb91-a7761aca704f.file "Lech Wałęsa. Photo: Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich) (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons")
Lech Wałęsa. Photo: Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich) (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Wałęsa was taken to a hospital in Gdańsk, northern Poland, on Saturday because of circulation problems.
Earlier, he had been expected to take part in an anti-government protest in Warsaw on Monday.
Wałęsa was the leader of the Solidarity movement which conducted strikes and held protests which helped bring down the communist regime in Poland in 1989.
Several years ago, media reported that he had a pacemaker installed and that he was suffering coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
(pk)
Source: PAP