BANGKOK, Feb 23: Former crown prince Paras Shah´s condition did not improve on Friday either - four days after he was admitted to a Bangkok hospital following a major heart attack.
As Shah´s condition continued to be critical, his wife former crown princess Himani Shah who arrived in Bangkok in the evening visited him at the ICU of Samitivej Hospital at Sukumvit - Soi 49. He is unconscious but stable. [break]“The condition has not become worse and neither has it improved drastically,” said a family source. The hospital has not made any official comment on Shah´s condition so far.
For privacy reasons, the hospital has erased Shah´s name from the list of patients admitted there. “No one by the name of Paras Shah is admitted here,” a public relations officer at the hospital said after conducting a search of patients at Republica´s request.
According to a source, doctors had kept Paras´ body temperature at a lower level and are gradually raising it so as to prevent internal hemmorrhage and organ failure.
Dr Rajeev Shahi, a relative who flew into Bangkok on Wednesday, declined to comment on Shah´s condition. “We are currently going through a rough phase. I would be grateful if you could understand our problem and give us some space,” he said. “We will disseminate information on him at the right moment and upon getting consent from the hospital.”
He, however, said rumors that Shah was dead - which made the rounds on social network sites on Friday - were baseless.
Shah suffered a major cardiac arrest Tuesday night-- the second since September 2007 -- at the apartment of Sunil Khadka, a Nepali businessman, at Rama 9 in Bangkok, where he has been staying for the last two months.
“Doctors said his (Shah´s) heart had stopped beating for around 50 minutes when he was brought to the hospital,” according to a source. “However, CT scans (conducted twice since Wednesday) show that his brain is fine and there is no trace of blood clots there.”
The source also said that doctors are now trying to start Shah´s various body functions one by one so as reduce pressure on the heart and brain.
Khadka had earlier told Republica that Shah had changed his lifestyle drastically of lately.
“He used to stay in the apartment most of the time and had quit alcohol some time back,” he said. “But he did not go for health checkups regularly.”
Khadka also said Shah was keeping a low profile ever since he was arrested on charges of possessing marijuana in Phuket and the lodging of a police complaint after the smashing up of a rented Bangkok apartment.
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