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Indian PM 'out of intensive care'
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by Sanjay Jha | January 28, 2009 at 03:53 am
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The condition of 76-year-old Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, after undergoing heart bypass surgery at the weekend , has been recovering very good and he has been moved out of intensive care at a Delhi hospital.
During the 11-hour operation, surgeons performed five bypasses on the leader. He is expected to remain in hospital for seven to eight days.
Singh, 76, "was moved out of the ICU this morning. All his monitoring devices have been removed and he has been shifted to an adjacent room," AIIMS sources said.
The decision to shift the Prime Minister out of the ICU was taken by a team of doctors which included his personal physician Dr K S Reddy and repeat bypass surgeon Dr Ramakant Panda from Mumbai's Asian Heart Institute (AHI).
Dr Vijay D'Silva, an ICU specialist also from AHI who is attending on the Prime Minister said, "His is a speedy recovery in the expected time frame".
Meanwhile, President Pratibha Patil visited AIIMS and spent nearly 20 minutes with the Prime Minister's family.
Singh, who underwent the over 11-hour-long operation on Saturday last, had walked in his room on Tuesday and was put on a normal diet.
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at 07:23 on January 28th, 2009
A five way bypass seems uncommon but my husband had that done over 15 years ago. He was out of ICU in less than 24 hours. Of course he was much younger but my point is that it is not routine but it is common. I wish him well.