Suharto's organs are failing

Doctors treating former Indonesian dictator Suharto said yesterday that his organs have partly failed, but ongoing blood transfusions have improved his condition slightly.

Suharto, 84, was admitted to Jakarta's Pertamina Hospital late Thursday for intestinal bleeding and received a blood transfusion.

"His condition is slightly better as his hemoglobin has raised from 7.8 to 8.4, but for an old man like him, we cannot say that it is stable, especially because the function of some of his organs have decreased by 70 percent," presidential doctor Brig. Gen. Marjo Subiandono said.