FOREIGN medical experts have rushed to Baghdad to assist Iraqi doctors treating ailing President Jalal Talabani, whose condition is said to be improving after he suffered a stroke.
Talabani, a member of Iraq's Kurdish minority, was taken to the hospital late Monday and doctors worked to stabilise him into the following day.
His illness raises new concerns about Iraq's stability, which is being tested anew by a recent spike in tensions between the central government and the Kurds.
Talabani's doctors have not formally said the 79-year-old statesman suffered a stroke, though several other government officials have confirmed that is the case.
Deputy Health Minister Issam Namiq said medical teams from Iran and Germany had arrived to assist with the treatment, with additional experts from Britain on their way.
He told reporters the president is getting better, though he offered no details about the severity of the illness.
"His condition is stable. And I underline here that there is an improvement in his condition compared with yesterday," he said.
Neighbouring Turkey has offered to send an air ambulance to fly the president to a hospital abroad.
Kurdish lawmaker Mahmoud Othman also described Talabani's condition as improving, saying he is "in a better situation than yesterday."
Doctors are considering whether to send Talabani abroad for treatment but no decision has been made, Namiq said.
The US Embassy in Baghdad expressed hopes for a speedy recovery. Word of Talabani's illness had trickled out on Tuesday, which marked the one-year anniversary of the end of the US-led war in Iraq.
Talabani's official powers are limited but he is seen as a rare unifying figure able to rise above the ethnic and sectarian rifts that still divide the country.
Iraq's parliament has the authority to choose a new president should Talabani's office become vacant.
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