BANGKOK: Doctors treating Thailand’s hospital-bound monarch Bhumibol Adulyadej have drained excess fluid from his spinal cord and brain, the palace said in a statement late Friday.

The king, 88, is the object of an intense personality cult and his frail health is a subject of significant public concern.

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