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King
Abdullah in good health, assures Prince Salman
Wednesday November 28, 2012 08:59:34 AM,
Agencies
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Riyadh:
Dismissing the reports that Saudi King Abdullah had slipped into a
coma and was on ventilator, Crown Prince Salman on Tuesday said
that the King was "well and in good health" after undergoing a
back surgery at King Abdul Aziz Medical City about 10 days ago.
"Brothers, I convey to you greetings of King Abdullah and I convey
to you good news that he is well and in good health," Arab News
quoted Prince Salman, who is also the defense minister of the
country, as saying to counterparts from the six-member Gulf
Cooperation Council at a meeting in Riyadh.
Prince Salman and other senior princes on Tuesday visited the
hospital to get reassured about the king’s health.
Reports that "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 is widely
published yesterday.
The reports quoting a Saudi journalist at the London-based Asharq Alawsat
said that the Saudi king, who was taken to the Intensive Care Unit
(ICU) of a Riyadh hospital following his surgery, had gone into a
coma and had been living with the help of a ventilator over the
past two days.
The reports quoting medics of the hospital
further claimed that the king’s basic organs,
particularly his heart, lungs and kidneys did 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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