A Singaporean doctor who treated Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum said yesterday the late billionaire had encountered the 'biggest challenge' in her battle with cancer a week before she was said to have signed a 2006 will leaving her entire estate to her fung shui master and purported lover.
Testifying through a video link from a Singapore court, Tay Eng Hseon told the Court of First Instance that by October 9 that year Wang's condition was 'on the verge of becoming bad' and she could have collapsed at any time.
Professor Tay, a former senior consultant and certified oncologist at KK Women's and Children's Hospital, said he believed at the time that Wang could not beat the disease, despite being 'determined to try everything to survive'.
The contested will that fung shui master Tony Chan Chun-chuen claims leaves him the entire Chinachem empire was signed on October 16, 2006. His rival in the probate battle, Chinachem Charitable Foundation, is relying on a will signed in 2002.
The doctor, who treated Wang for almost a year, said that during her last admission to the hospital, between October 4 and 11, 2006, her condition had fluctuated and deteriorated so much that she had had to postpone her return to Hong Kong.
She had been due for discharge on October 9 but he refused to discharge her because she had abdominal discomfort and an intestinal obstruction and had vomited. Between September and October, he said, Wang had lost 9kg.