Renowned actress and comedian Lydia Sum Tin-ha is reported to be
in serious condition in a Hong Kong hospital's intensive care unit
after collapsing in her home on Thursday.
South China Morning Post reported that the semi-conscious Hong Kong
actress was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
The 60-year-old actress, fondly known as Fei Fei, was later
transferred to the Queen Mary Hospital.
The Standard reported that Sum suffered from pleural effusion,
which is a complication of liver cancer.
Police officers have been assigned to patrol the intensive care
unit at the hospital to keep the media at bay.
Sum, fondly known as Fei Fei, (inset) was rushed to the Queen
Elizabeth Hospital after she collapsed in her home in Hong Kong on
Thursday.
Sum's daughter Joyce Cheng Yan-yee, 20, declined to comment on her
mothers condition.
Sums former husband Adam Cheng Siu-chow, who visited her at
5.30pm, said her condition had stabilised.
In September last year, Sum was admitted to hospital for a
cholelithotomy to have 32 gallstones extracted. Then, she was
diagnosed with cancer of the liver and gallbladder.
Doctors at Queen Mary Hospital removed a 2.7kg tumour after an
eight-hour long operation and, since then, she has been in and out
of hospital many times.
