KOTA BARU: Former Kelantan Mentri Besar Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat (pic) is in stable condition but remains unconscious, his son Nik Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz has confirmed.

“He is critical and he needs to be in intensive care.

“Doctors have done their best and my father is stable but he’s unconscious,” Nik Abduh told reporters after visiting the PAS spiritual adviser at Universiti Sains Malaysia Hospital (HUSM) Kubang Kerian on Tuesday.

Nik Abduh added that is father was warded due to prostate cancer and that Nik Aziz, 83, had undergone chemotherapy in 2012.

“He is on a breathing support machine and I did not talk to him because he was unconscious,” he said.

Nik Abduh, a PAS central committee member, also highlighted that his father’s health had begun to deteriorate in December last year.