Former Prime Minister I K Gujral is very serious and is under supervision of a team of Experienced medical consultants.
Gujral, 93, was admitted to the Medicity Medanta Hospital Gurgaon with a lung infection on Nov 19, and is still on the ventilator.
“He is very critical, medicines are not showing much effect, good wishes can help him better,” a senior medical consultant, who did not wish to be named, told IANS.
“He is still on the ventilator but he is stable,” his son Naresh Gujral, a Rajya Sabha member from the Shiromani Akali Dal, told IANS. “The doctors are hoping for the best and we are all praying for his well-being.”
Earlier on Monday, doctors had described the former prime minister’s condition as “very critical”.
Another senior consultant at the hospital termed Gujral’s condition “critical but stable”.
“The condition of the former prime minister is critical but stable and changing minute by minute,” admitted the consultant, also speaking on the condition of anonymity.
A team of nine senior consultants headed by Dr. Naresh Trehan is keeping a close watch on the patient, he added.
Update on November 28
The condition of former prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral remains “very critical”, a doctor said Wednesday.
“His condition is the same as yesterday — very critical,” K.L. Sehgal, a doctor from the Medicity Medanta Hospital here, told IANS.
On Tuesday, Gujral fell unconscious and his urine output was blocked.