The condition of CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu today remained 'very very critical' following multi-organ failure and doctors said he is entirely on life support system.
"He is entirely on life support system ... He is on full ventilation," Debashsis Sharma, Superintendent of the AMRI Hospital in Salt Lake, where the 95-year-old former West Bengal chief minister is admitted, said.
Basu's lung, kidney and haemo-dynamic system had failed yesterday and heart and liver functions had been affected.
His pressure is now under control to an extent, Sharma said.
The medical board is meeting at 10 am and a decision would be taken on whether he would be given fresh dialysis, he said.
Basu's family members were called by the hospital late last night as his blood pressure sank suddenly. The blood pressure was stabilised to an extent after administering a new medicine.
