Two days after he underwent a coronary bypass surgery, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was tonight making “steady and excellent progress” and doctors said everything was going according to the “treatment plan.”
The 76-year-old prime minister, who was put on semi-solid diet for the first time today after his surgery on Saturday, would be taken out of the intensive care unit (ICU) of AIIMS by Wednesday, said Dr Ramakant Panda, a specialist of Mumbai’s Asian Heart Institute, who led the team of doctors during the 11-hour surgery.
UPA chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi visited Singh and wished him well.
The prime minister “continues to make steady and excellent progress in his recovery following the heart surgery. He sat up this morning and had semi-solid food,” said his Media Adviser Deepak Sandhu. Gandhi was in the hospital for 15 minutes, Sandhu said.
Noting that several of his “invasive monitoring lines” had been removed, she said Singh was undergoing physiotherapy to enable early mobilisation.
“The prime minister was conversing with his family members and the doctors attending on him,” Sandhu said, adding that he was eager to resume work as soon as possible.
Dr Vijay D’Silva, who is taking care of Singh in the ICU, said the prime minister was “recovering well and his vital parameters are stable.”
Dr Panda said the prime minister was “responding very well to the treatment...everything is going according to the treatment plan. The prime minister will be taken out of the ICU by Wednesday.” Doctors said the date of discharge had not been decided.
