KUALA LUMPUR: Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah was admitted to the Nationwide Coronary heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday (Could 27) attributable to fatigue, the Malaysian prime minister has confirmed.
The sultan is in Kuala Lumpur with different Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders, who’re assembly on Tuesday with Chinese language Premier Li Qiang and dignitaries from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Requested at a information convention whether or not the sultan had been hospitalised, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim mentioned: “Properly he is feeling a bit drained, so he is resting on the (Nationwide Coronary heart Institute).”
A Malaysian authorities supply earlier instructed AFP the sultan “was hospitalised in between the ASEAN-GCC and ASEAN-GCC-China summit”.
“The Nationwide Coronary heart Institute is the designated hospital for VIPs through the course of this ASEAN summit and related conferences,” they mentioned.
The hospital mentioned it couldn’t remark, however one other Malaysian authorities supply individually confirmed the information to AFP.