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Suharto suffers multiple organ failure: hospital

JAKARTA
Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:31am EST
Former Indonesian President Suharto stands in his room at the presidential palace in Jakarta a day before he stepped down after 32 years in power, May 19,1998. Suharto has suffered multiple organ failure and is being given help breathing with a ventilator, one of his doctors told a news conference on Friday. REUTERS/Enny Nuraheni

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's former president Suharto has suffered multiple organ failure and is being given help breathing with a ventilator, one of his doctors told a news conference on Friday.

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"We cannot say how long" he can be kept alive, said Muhammad Munawar, one of the medical team.

(Reporting by Telly Nathalia, editing by Sara Webb)



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