The development comes on the day his parents - former king Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah and former queen Komal Rajya Laxmi Shah - left for Bangkok to join other family members attending to the ex-crown prince, including former crown princess Himani Shah.[break]
“Some spontaneous movement of limbs was observed today (Wednesday),” said a statement issued by Samitivej Hospital in Bangkok, where Shah has been receiving treatment for the last nine days. This, according to a reliable source, was the result of raising his body temperature to the normal level of 37 degrees Centigrade.
Doctors have been gradually raising the body temperature for the last few days to ensure that the body organs do not come under pressure and collapse, the source said.
The hospital also said Shah´s “blood pressure and heart rate are being maintained without the need of medication”.
As no major complications were reported, the hospital, in a statement, referred to Shah´s condition as “critical but stable”. Except on Sunday, the hospital had termed Shah´s condition as “very critical but stable”.
Shah suffered a major cardiac arrest last Tuesday night--the second since September 2007--at the apartment of Bangkok-based Nepali businessman Sunil Khadka at Rama 9 in Bangkok, where he had been staying for last two months.
Doctors said his heart had stopped beating for some 50 minutes when he was brought to the hospital at around 8 pm.
Since then Shah´s sister, first cousins and close family members have flown to Bangkok to attend to him. Hundreds of well-wishers also thronged the hospital every day to wish him a speedy recovery.
On Wednesday, his parents also arrived in Bangkok. They went straight to the hospital after landing at Suvarnabhumi airport, the source said. “After arriving in the hospital, they visited Paras and then held consultations with doctors,” the source said, without disclosing where the former king and queen are staying.
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