The 87-year-old King Bhumibol has been in Bangkok`s Siriraj hospital for more than three months and had been treated for water on the brain. He was suffering at the weekend from a blood infection and lung inflammation.
His fever has subsided, blood oxygen levels had returned to normal and an X-ray had shown his lung inflammation had been lowered substantially, the palace said.
The king was still receiving food intravenously and was being given oxygen, it said.
The king`s health is watched closely in Thailand, where he is a figure of moral strength and symbol of continuity in a country that has been through much upheaval during his 69-year reign.
The king has spent most of the past six years in hospital.
Most Thais have known no other monarch, and nervousness over the eventual succession has played into a decade of political division.
During a visit to a royal foundation for volunteer doctors on Monday, covered by Thailand`s daily royal news programmes, the king`s youngest daughter, Princess Chulabhorn, urged people to pray for the his recovery.
"I would like all of you to think of the king while praying, that you`re praying for his recovery from illness and for him to live long," she said.
Thailand King Recovering After Infection, Lung Inflammation
16 September 2015
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Thailand`s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world`s longest-reigning monarch, is making a recovery in hospital after being treated for a blood infection and lung inflammation, the palace said on Wednesday.
