BANGKOK — Concern for the health of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand on Wednesday prompted the country’s prime minister to return abruptly to Bangkok, caused Thai stocks to fall sharply and sent well-wishers to the hospital where the 88-year-old monarch was being treated.
A government spokesman said that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, chief of the junta that runs the country, returned to meet with Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, the heir to the throne, who lives most of the time in Germany.
The country, which has been under military rule since 2014, is deeply polarized, but King Bhumibol has been a unifying figure, even in ill health. The military’s authority derives from the king, and there is a sense of national anxiety about his condition and what will happen when he dies.
All of the king’s children — the prince and his three sisters — were reported to have arrived on Wednesday at Siriraj Hospital, where King Bhumibol, one of the world’s longest-reigning monarchs, has been confined for most of the past few years. He last left the hospital in January.
The royal palace announced on Sunday that the king, a widely revered figure who suffers from kidney failure and receives hemodialysis to filter his blood, was in unstable condition and that he was breathing with the help of a ventilator.
When:last left the hospital in January
What: a widely revered figure who suffers from kidney failure and receives hemodialysis to filter his blood, was in unstable condition and that he was breathing with the help of a ventilator.
Where:Thailand
Keyword
abruptly 突然地
hemodialysis 血液透析
ventilator 通風機
A powerful,strong, enduring king pass away means a generation is die out ,and another new get start. He is a legend who dominated Thailand for more than seventy years and died at the age of eighty eight. How will the next Thailand be? Just waiting for the next king.
回覆刪除A powerful,strong, enduring king pass away means a generation is die out ,and another new get start. He is a legend who dominated Thailand for more than seventy years and died at the age of eighty eight. How will the next Thailand be? Just waiting for the next king.
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