BANGKOK, May 21, 2016 (AFP) – Thailand’s hospital-bound monarch Bhumibol Adulyadej is being treated for water on the brain and has had the excess fluid drained, the palace said in a statement late Friday. Bhumibol, 88, is the object of an intense personality cult and his frail health is a subject of significant public concern. The wheelchair-confined king is rarely seen in public and has spent most of the past two years hospitalized for a series of ailments, including previous bouts of hydrocephalus (water on the brain). Thai monarch, King Bhumibol Adlyadej. Photo courtesy of Bloomberg The Royal Household Bureau said in a statement that doctors adjusted a tube used to drain excess fluid after they noticed facial twitching. ”It was detected that his facial muscles had irregular movements and the doctor conducted a computer x-ray and found there was an irregular surplus of fluid in the backbone and [...]
