Kolkata, July 18 (Inditop.com) The condition of former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu, under treatment at a private hospital here, is stable and he may be released Monday, a hospital official said here Saturday.
“The medical review has disclosed that the patient slept normally last night and had adequate food. Today (Saturday), we will be mobilising him out of the bed,” the hospital spokesman told reporters.
The 96-year-old patriarch of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), who was admitted to the hospital following gastro-intestinal complications and transient loss of consciousness last Sunday, was shifted out of the intensive cardiac care unit (ICCU) to a room Tuesday as his condition improved.
Earlier in the day, Basu’s personal assistant Joykrishna Ghosh told IANS that his condition was stable.
The hospital spokesman added: “We may release him Monday after his condition is reviewed once again.”
Basu injured his left leg after another fall at his home May 13. This prevented him from casting his vote in the Lok Sabha polls two months back — the first time in 63 years that he did not vote.
He had cracked a rib after a fall in the bathroom in 2007.
Born 1914 in Kolkata, Basu became chief minister in June 1977. He stepped down voluntarily on health grounds in November 2000.
One of the founding members of the CPI-M, Basu almost became India’s prime minister in 1996 as the head of a coalition government. But the CPI-M vetoed the proposal.