By IANS,
Kolkata : Former West Bengal chief minister and Marxist veteran Jyoti Basu, who is in a nursing home here after a fall at his residence last week, continued to be stable Thursday, the hospital said.
“Basu’s health condition is stable and he is being given a normal diet. The 10-member medical board has decided to continue the present regime of treatment till Monday,” a medical bulletin from the AMRI Hospital in south Kolkata said.
Basu, 94, suffered “internal haemorrhage in the head” after he fell at his Salt Lake home early Sep 5.
“We are trying to remove the blood clot in his brain through medication. The board will have another round of meetings Monday to discuss the improvements and decide if a surgery is required to remove the clot,” hospital vice-president S. Upadhyay told reporters.
West Bengal ruling Left Front chairman Biman Bose Thursday visited Basu at his nursing home suite.
“He is well. I talked to him and he also replied to me,” Bose told mediapersons outside the hospital.
He said: “The line of treatment would be decided by medical experts who are taking care of him (Basu). I am not a doctor and I can’t say anything about his health condition. But I found him stable.”
Basu underwent a CT scan a day after his fall and was advised hospitalisation. He also received stitches on the forehead.
Basu was the West Bengal chief minister from 1977 to 2000.