Former PM Manmohan Singh diagnosed with dengue, health gradually improving: AIIMS
The 89-year-old former PM was hospitalised earlier this week after he complained of fever and weakness.
FollowFormer Prime Minister and veteran Congress leader Dr Manmohan Singh has been diagnosed with dengue, but his health condition is gradually improving and is out of danger, said an official at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Saturday.
The 89-year-old former PM was hospitalised earlier this week after he complained of fever and weakness.
A team of cardiologists, under the guidance of Nitish Nayak, Dr Singh’s personal physician for years, are attending to the former PM.
The AIIMS official, while speaking to news agency IANS, said that the former Prime Minister's "platelets are increasing and is out of danger now".
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya also visited him and enquired about his health.
Earlier this year during the second wave of the pandemic, Manmohan Singh had tested positive for Covid-19 in April this year and had been admitted to the AIIMS.
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Meanwhile, several political leaders and other dignitaries including Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, former Union Minister Ashwani Kumar, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, Congress leader Mukul Wasnik, Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi, former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi and NCP’s Nawab Malik have been visiting the premier health institute since Dr Singh got admitted.
PM Modi also wished the former PM and Congress veteran a speedy recovery on his Twitter account.
On the other hand, the Congress party has demanded an apology from Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya for clicking a picture while visiting the former PM in AIIMS.
