A handout picture released by the Jordanian Royal Palace shows Jordanian King Abdullah II gesturing during a meeting with tribal leaders in Jordan Badia region on Oct 4, 2021. (YOUSEF ALLAN / JORDANIAN ROYAL PALACE / AFP)
AMMAN – King Abdullah II of Jordan on Tuesday had a successful surgery on a thoracic herniated disc in Germany, the Royal Hashemite Court said in a statement.
The surgery took place at a specialist hospital in Frankfurt, and the king would follow a period of rest before his return to Jordan, the statement said.
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The king had been experiencing intermittent pain in the spinal cord after years of parachuting while serving in the Special Forces, but the pressure on the nerve increased recently because of the herniation, which requires urgent surgery based on the medical advice, the statement explained.