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Bismillah Khan hospitalised

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Bharat Ratna shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan was admitted to the Heritage Hospital in Varanasi on Thursday morning for the treatment of weakness and potassium, calcium and protein deficiency.

The 92-year-old shehnai legend was brought in an ambulance from his
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Harha Sarai residence to the private hospital in Lanka area of the city, sources said.

Doctors D K Sinha and A K Pandey are attending to the ailing musician, hospital sources said. The first medical bulletin about Khan sahib's condition will be issued at 2:00 pm.
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