Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu was today admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital here with slight pneumonia infection and doctors attending on him said his condition was stable.
The 95-year-old leader has been kept under observation, the doctors said.
"Basu has been closely examined and found to have a little pneumonia," the doctors said after a 5-member medical board started treatment of the former Chief Minister and conducted CT-scan, X-ray and blood tests.
A medical bulletin said Basu was admitted with chest congestion and infection and thorough examination detected he had been afflicted with slight pneumonia.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rang up West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee this evening to enquire about Basu's health, CPI(M) sources said.
Before being taken to hospital, Basu was examined at his Indira Bhavan residence in Salt Lake area by a four-member team of doctors headed by his personal physician A K Maity who decided to admit him to AMRI hospital for a thorough treatment for his bronchial congestion.
Basu's personal aide Joykrishna Ghosh said that the Marxist veteran's other health parameters were okay.
One of the doctors, Trishit Roy said Basu's condition was stable.
