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'King Fahd may leave hospital soon'
 RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's ailing King Fahd may soon leave the hospital where he has been for two and a half weeks, Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said on Saturday.| Hearse entrance is around back. |
"Medical reports show that the health of King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz is reassuring. He is as stable as he's been these last few years fine," Prince Saud told a press conference. "The doctors who are treating him are the ones to decide the date of his discharge from hospital, and their reports indicate that he will leave soon," he said. Officials in Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporting country, have repeatedly made positive statements about the health of the monarch since he was admitted to King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh on May 27. But they have not released medical reports about his condition.| I'll settle for the autopsy. |
A medical source told AFP three days after Fahd was hospitalized that the king, who is believed to be 84, was recovering from pneumonia. Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz said the next day that Fahd was recovering from an infection and would leave hospital soon.| "As soon as we gas up the, um...limo." |
Posted by: Steve White 2005-06-19 |
