Suharto suffers multiple organ failure: hospital

Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:31am EST
 
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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)

 
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