Kolkata, January 07: The condition of 95-year-old marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu, who is suffering from acute pneumonia, today continued to be critical and he is being given ventilatory support, doctors attending on him said.
“Basu’s condition showed some improvement yesterday.
Today, however, there is no further improvement in his condition and his blood pressure is fluctuating from time to time,” Executive Director D N Agarwal of private AMRI hospital, where Basu is admitted, said.
Basu was put on a ventilator at the ICCU yesterday after his condition deteriorated. A bronchoscopy done yesterday did not suggest any change in the line of treatment, Agarwal said. A small amount of liquid food was being given to Basu through a tube.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee flew in here and visited the hospital in the city’s Salt Lake area. They were briefed on Basu’s condition by the doctors.
—PTI