OSLO, Norway (AP) \u2014 The health of King Harald of Norway deteriorated over the weekend, the royal palace said.<\/p>\n
The 89-year-old monarch, who has been on sick leave for several weeks, was admitted to the National Hospital a week ago. He is now receiving antibiotics for a bacterial blood infection and has responded to treatment, the palace said late Sunday, adding that his condition is stable.<\/p>\n
His son, Crown Prince Haakon, has been serving as regent during that time, the palace said.<\/p>\n
The king suffers from hemolytic anemia and was being treated with cortisone, leading to fluid accumulation in the body that required hospital treatment, the palace said last week.<\/p>\n
Norway’s prime minister sent his wishes for the king and said that \u201call of Norway is following and thinking about the king,\u201d public broadcaster NRK reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy strong wish is that he continues to receive good treatment from the good healthcare system we have,\u201d Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re said.<\/p>\n
Harald, who has been monarch since 1991, has been in and out of the hospital several times in recent years.<\/p>\n
In February, he was admitted to a hospital in Spain\u2019s Canary Islands during a winter vacation for treatment for a skin infection.<\/p>\n
Two years ago, the king fell ill during a private vacation with the queen in Malaysia and received a temporary pacemaker there. Harald returned aboard a medical airplane to Norway, where he was fitted with a permanent pacemaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSLO, Norway (AP) \u2014 The health of King Harald of Norway deteriorated over the weekend, the royal palace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[16143,1126,1124,157,156],"class_list":["post-151321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-ap-health","tag-ap-world-news","tag-associated-press","tag-norway","tag-oslo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117149923235594524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}