Jyoti Basu has mild fever, still critical

By IANS,

Kolkata : Communist patriarch Jyoti Basu, battling pneumonia in a city hospital, had mild fever and continued to be in a critical condition Tuesday, a medical bulletin said.


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Basu, 95, would be given one unit of blood to improve his haemoglobin count.

The eight-member medical board treating the former West Bengal chief minister has also decided to do a CT scan to get a clearer picture of his general condition, said an AMRI hospital medical bulletin.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) veteran is on ventilator support. He was hospitalised Jan 1.

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