Soeharto's illness revealed: It's diverculitis<\/p>\n
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Former president Soeharto has to get blood transfusion in the
\nnext few days due to internal bleeding on his digestion track
\nbut overall his health condition is better than two years ago,
\na doctor says.<\/p>\n
"Pak Harto is suffering from diverculitis. When he was
\nadmitted here, he suffered bleeding on his digestion canal. He
\nhas so far received some blood transfusions. We will do it
\neveryday (until he gets better)," said Dr. Hermansyur, one of
\nSoeharto's nine-member team of doctors.<\/p>\n
Hermansyur was speaking during a press conference attended by
\nSoeharto's medical team members including Dr. Kunindrodadi, who
\nheads Soeharto's team of private doctors, intestine experts Dr.
\nWaldemar Simanjuntak and Aziz Rani, and heart expert Dr. Yuniarti
\nTanjung.<\/p>\n
Soeharto, 82, was brought to the Pertamina hospital in South
\nJakarta on Monday afternoon after complaining of being weak.<\/p>\n
The bleeding, Aziz disclosed, originated from a wound in his
\ndigestion canal doctors had already detected in 2002.<\/p>\n
"It's a relapse, which is common among people of his age,"
\nAziz said.<\/p>\n
Hermansyur admitted that Soeharto's health condition was
\nbetter than in 2002.<\/p>\n
"But, we don't know how long he will remain here," he said.<\/p>\n
Kunindrodadi, meanwhile, said that the team of doctors would
\ntake care of Soeharto seriously due to his age and to detect
\nrelapse of possible other diseases he had in the past.<\/p>\n
During the legislative election on April 5 Soeharto looked
\nhealthy. He walked unaided from his private house to the nearby
\npolling station in the plush Menteng housing complex in Central
\nJakarta.<\/p>\n
Soeharto was forced to resign from his presidential post in
\nMay 1998 after 33 years in office. Citing his poor health, his
\nwell-paid lawyers had managed to prevent the government from
\nbringing him to justice for his alleged corruption.<\/p>\n
The South Jakarta District Court shared the lawyers' argument
\nand declared in 2002 that the prosecutors would indict Soeharto
\nif he was healthy.<\/p>\n
Since then, the Attorney General's Office (AGO) has asked
\nSoeharto to undergo medical test twice after media reports
\nsuggested that he was healthy enough to attend a wedding ceremony
\nof his granddaughter and to visit his favorite son Hutomo "Tommy"
\nMandala Putra, who is jailed for murder in the Nusakambangan
\npenitentiary.<\/p>\n
The team of doctors set up for the test said that Soeharto
\nsuffered from permanent brain damage after two strokes.<\/p>",
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