New Delhi, May 11, 2020: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was taken to Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on March 10 after he reportedly complained of chest pain, is under observation and doing okay, an official from his office said.
Singh’s office later confirmed that the former prime minister is under observation. “He is okay. He was taken to the hospital as he had fever due to the side-effect of the medication given yesterday. He is under observation,” the official told Hindustan Times.
Singh, who was admitted to Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was under observation at cardio-thoracic ward after he reportedly complained of chest pain.
The 87- year- old veteran Congress leader was brought to AIIMS around 8.45pm . A hospital source said that the former PM was admitted in the cardio neurosciences (CNS) tower.
“He is under observation after he complained of chest pain. He’s admitted at the cardio-thoriac ward and is doing fine,” Congress sources said.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi and party leader Rahul Gandhi enquired about the former prime minister’s health.
Singh has a long history of heart ailment, and even underwent a revision heart bypass surgery in 2009.
Singh has been a trenchant critic of the Narendra Modi government for its economic policies. Last month, he slammed the Centre for freezing the dearness allowance (DA) of central government employees and added it was unnecessary to impose these hardships amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
In April, Singh had also accepted Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s request to guide the state government in restoring the state’s growth and economy once the Covid-19 crisis ends.
Earlier this year, he had claimed that the Centre was in denial of an economic “slowdown” which was the reason for a lack of a “credible” solution to fix it.
Singh is widely credited with ushering in broad economic reforms as the finance minister in the Narsimha Rao government in the 1990s.
Source:hindustantimes.com