Jyoti Basu admitted to hospital

By IANS,

Kolkata : Marxist patriarch and former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu was admitted to a private hospital Sunday following breathing trouble, hospital sources said.


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Basu, who turned 96 on July 8, was taken in an ambulance to the AMRI hospital near his Salt Lake residence of Indira Bhavan after he spent a restless night.

He has been admitted to the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, the sources said.

“He is now better,” the Communist Party of India-Marxist leader’s son Chandan Basu told reporters.

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