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Saudi King Abdullah slips into coma: Report
Tuesday November 27, 2012 07:55:07 PM,
Agencies
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London:
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has slipped into a coma and is
clinically dead nearly a week after a 14-hour-long back surgery in
a hospital in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, a report says.
The Saudi king, who was taken to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of
a Riyadh hospital following his surgery, has gone into a coma and
has been living with the help of a ventilator over the past two
days, a Saudi journalist at the London-based Asharq Alawsat said.
According to medics of the hospital, the king’s basic organs,
particularly his heart, lungs and kidneys do not function and the
doctors were forced to use electric shocks to stimulate his
cardiac muscles several times.
The Saudi king’s surgery aimed at correcting “a ligamentary
slackening in the upper back” began on Saturday November 18 and
ended at dawn on Sunday November 19.
The 89-year-old king’s health has declined over the past few
years, and he has been hospitalized several times.
In October 2011, Abdullah underwent a similar operation to tighten
ligaments around his third vertebra.
In 2010, he had two rounds of back surgery in the United States
after suffering a herniated disc.
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