Indian PM Manmohan Singh to have heart bypass surgery

by Sanjay Jha | January 23, 2009 at 02:57 am

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will have heart bypass surgery within the next seven to ten days.
He was discharged from a hospital in the capital New Delhi on Thursday morning following a series of heart tests that revealed multiple arterial blockages.
The surgery would likely take place after India's Republic Day holiday on January 26, and that the 76-year-old prime minister was not in any danger.

"Dr Manmohan Singh will undergo coronary artery bypass graft surgery on January 24 at AIIMS," said PTI quoting PMO spokesperson Deepak Sandhu.

The PM has been admitted to AIIMS for tomorrow’s surgery, which will be performed by a team of doctors from AIIMS and the Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai, the spokesperson added.

The Prime Minister will miss the Republic Day parade.

Earlier this week, the PM underwent extensive medical tests at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

An official PMO statement on Wednesday said the PM had undergone "diagnostic evaluation" and "treatment procedures which have been recommended would be undertaken in a few days". It was said on Tuesday that Singh was being given an overall medical check-up.

Doctors attending to the PM made it clear that he did not face any medical emergency. They said he was stable and did not face any physical discomfort during the tests. The doctors who conducted angiography - X-ray examination of the blood vessels or chambers of the heart through a small tube inserted into a blood vessel - on Singh also carried out multiple blood chemistry tests, CT scan and ECG. These tests are understood to have revealed arterial blockages in the heart.