Riyadh, December 04: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah had a successful second operation in New York on Friday, the royal court said in a statement released by the Kingdom’s state news agency.
Earlier on Friday, the court said the King, would have surgery to stabilise vertebrae in his spinal column.
“The operation, which took place at exactly six in the morning New York time, was successful, and a second phase of physiotherapy will begin after that (the operation),” the statement issued through the Saudi Press Agency said.
The second operation was the completion of earlier surgery in New York last week after a blood clot complicated a slipped disc, a statement released earlier on Friday said.
A Saudi official on the sidelines of a Gulf security conference in Bahrain confirmed the success of the second operation.
“He is well. He had an operation today and I hope he soon gets better,” Prince Turki Al Faisal, a former Saudi intelligence chief, told reporters.
–Agencies–