Ghafar stable, but unable to talk
Oct 21, 05 7:03pm
Former deputy premier Abdul Ghafar Babas health condition remains stable although he is still unable to talk.
"My father's condition is the same as yesterday. He still cannot talk, probably he is too weak, his daughter Sally told Bernama today.
"Nevertheless, he is responding to family members who visited him," she added. Yesterday, Ghafar, 80, was reported to be able to breathe on his own without the aid of respiratory equipment.
Meanwhile, Pantai Medical Centre public relations unit spokesman said Ghafar was still not allowed to receive visitors.
He is being treated at the private specialist hospital for heart and lung complications.
Earlier, he was warded
at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre in Petaling Jaya for chest pains before being transferred to the PMC's Intensive Care Unit on Oct 12.
Yesterday, rumours began to spread widely that he had died. This led the medical centre to issue a denial
Hospital quashes rumour on Ghafar
Oct 20, 05 4:52pm
The health condition of former deputy prime minister Ghafar Baba, admitted at the Pantai Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur, continues to improve the hospitals consultant cardiologist Dr Zainal Abidin Abdul Hamid said today.
He is now keen to communicate with the doctor although he is not able to speak yet because of the temporary opening in his airway, known as tracheotomy, said Zainal in a statement this afternoon. (It) had to be performed to enable him to breathe easily. He is able to breathe on his own for a prolonged period now without assistance, the doctor added.
Statement issued at 1pm
The brief statement was read out by a PMC official when contacted by malaysiakini. The statement was released at about 1pm to deny strong rumours that Ghafar, 80, has passed away.
The rumours came
hours after Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawis wife, Endon Mahmood, 64, passed away at 7.55 this morning after a battle against breast cancer.
Ghafar has been admitted at the PMC since last Thursday after he was transferred there from the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre where he had been admitted following chest pains.
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