Suharto suffers multiple organ failure: hospital

Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:31am EST
 
[-] Text [+]

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.

"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)

 
Photo

Featured Broker sponsored link

Editor's Choice

A selection of our best photos from the past 24 hours.  Slideshow 

Most Popular on Reuters

  • Articles
  • Video
Bernd Debusmann
A paradox of plenty: Hunger in America

In the world’s wealthiest country, home to more obese people than anywhere else on earth, one in six Americans struggled to feed themselves and their children in 2008. Millions went hungry, at least some of the time. Things are bound to get worse.  Commentary