AGADIR: Crown Prince Sultan arrived in this Moroccan city yesterday to convalesce after an operation in New York, the Royal Court announced.
“The crown prince has completed the necessary medical treatment in New York after a surgical operation that he had undergone earlier,” the Saudi Press Agency said quoting a Royal Court statement.
Prince Turki bin Sultan, who is the assistant information minister, said on Tuesday that the crown prince was in “excellent health” and would return to the Kingdom soon.
Prince Sultan was in New York for treatment after undergoing a period of “prescribed convalescence” in Morocco. He had previously traveled to the United States in November for medical tests.
Prince Sultan became heir to the throne and first deputy prime minister when Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah ascended the throne after the death of King Fahd in 2005.
