Saudi Arabia King Salman in Stable Condition after Admitted to Hospital in Riyadh

Saudi Arabia's King Salman is in stable condition, three Saudi sources said, after the 84-year-old monarch was admitted to hospital in the capital Riyadh on Monday with what state media said was inflammation of the gall bladder.

The king, who has ruled the world's largest oil exporter and close US ally since 2015, was undergoing medical checks, state media on Monday cited a Royal Court statement as saying without further details.

Three well-connnected Saudi sources who declined to be identified, two of whom were speaking late on Monday and one on Tuesday, told Reuters the king was "fine".

An official in the region, who requested anonymity, said he spoke to one of King Salman's sons on Monday who seemed "calm" and that there was no sense of panic about the monarch's health.

King Salman received phone calls from the leaders of Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan on Monday, state media reported.

A strategic source said the realm's accepted ruler Crown Prince



Mohammed receptacle Salman flew back to Riyadh on Monday from his castle in the Red Sea city of NEOM, dropping an arranged gathering with a meeting Iraqi designation. The strategic source and the third Saudi source said he was still in the capital. 

Ruler Salman keep going talked freely on March 19 of every a five-minute broadcast address about the coronavirus pandemic. State media have distributed pictures and recordings of the lord leading on the web week after week bureau gatherings. Media have likewise conveyed pictures of the crown sovereign going to those gatherings on the web.

King Salman, the custodian of Islam's holiest sites, spent more than 2-1/2 years as the Saudi crown prince and was deputy prime minister from June 2012 before becoming king. He also served as governor of the Riyadh region for more than 50 years.

He named his young son Mohammed as crown prince to become next in line to the throne after a 2017 palace coup that ousted then-Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef.