Saudi King Salman undergoes medical tests: royal court

AFP | Riyadh

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Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia’s 90-year-old monarch King Salman is undergoing medical tests at a hospital in capital Riyadh, the kingdom’s Royal Court said yesterday.

“The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques -- may God protect him -- is undergoing medical examinations today... at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh,” the court said in a statement shared on state media.

In 2024, the Royal Court said he suffered from lung infections, which he recovered from.

He was hospitalised in May 2022, when he went in for a colonoscopy and stayed for just over a week for other tests and “some time to rest”, the official Saudi Press Agency reported at the time.

He was also admitted to hospital in March 2022 to undergo what state media described as “successful medical tests” and to change the battery of his pacemaker.

In 2020, he underwent surgery to remove his gall bladder.