Kolkata, January 11: The condition of CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu, kept on partial ventilation in hospital, continued to be critical today.
“He is a critical patient and we are dealing with a critical situation,” executive vice-president of AMRI Hospital T S Kuckrejja told reporters.
He said the 95-year-old former West Bengal chief minister’s general condition remained unchanged and his blood pressure was being maintained with a minimum dose of ionotrope, while his urine output was satisfactory.
“Urinary output is satisfactory with 30-40 ml per hour without medication which is satisfactory,” he said.
Basu was being fed through a Ryles tube and his condition monitored constantly.
The AMRI medical board had a ‘routine’ tele-conference with the AIIMS critical care unit in Delhi and experts there had expressed satisfaction with the treatment modalities.
–Agencies