Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who is undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, is fully conscious and is breathing on his own, a senior doctor said on Sunday. "He is breathing on his own and he is fully conscious," Dr Sampath Kumar, chief of the Cardio Thoracic Vascular Sciences Department at the hospital, said. Vajpayee's basic parameters like heart, kidney, liver and blood pressure were normal and he had recovered from pneumonia.
The special court trying the multi-crore Satyam scam cases had last week ordered the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences director to file a detailed report on the current status of Raju's health (the prime accused in the scam), after he did not appear before it in view of his treatment for Hepatitis C at the hospital in Hyderabad.
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Inadequate infrastructure and lack of facilities at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Tuesday came under scanner of a Parliamentary panel which slammed the government for its "failure" to even provide for a state-of-the-art ambulance to transport the Delhi gang-rape victim to the airport recently.
The condition of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences following respiratory infection and fever, was stable on Wednesday. The 84-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party leader was admitted to AIIMS on Tuesday night. He is being given appropriate treatment to deal with complaints of fever and respiratory infection, Dr Sharma said. Vajpayee is also suffering from hypertension and diabetes, he added.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's coronary by-pass surgery has been conducted successfully. Dr Singh was moved into the Intensive Care Unit at 8:55 pm, doctors told media persons, adding that the prime minister's family was being briefed about his health. It is learnt that Dr Singh is responding well to medication and is expected to regain consciousness on Sunday.
The Union Public Service Commission exam results were announced today. The first two spots were taken by Shena Aggarwal and Rukmani Riar. Prince Dhawan from Mumbai came third.
Dr Singh had cancelled his visit to Kolkata, scheduled for Wednesday, where he was to attend the Asiatic Society's post-bicentennial silver jubilee celebrations and inaugurate the 150th foundation day of St Xavier's College. Sources said Singh, who had earlier undergone a bypass surgery, had complained of chest pain after which a decision to carry out the tests was taken
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Thursday gave a green signal to a narco-analysis on top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy who had earlier opposed the move by the Delhi police before a Delhi court, citing his illness.
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One person killed was killed and five were injured in a powerful bomb blast at Uripok Tourangbam Leikai area in Imphal West district on Thursday evening, official sources said.
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was on Tuesday admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences after he complained of giddiness.
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The 87-year-old Congress leader was admitted to the hospital on Sunday evening after he complained of uneasiness.
Officials in Delhi said medical superintendents in all hospitals affected by the strike had been directed to maintain essential services.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday visited AIIMS hospital to enquire about the minor girl who was raped allegedly by her neighbour in east Delhi.
Expressing anguish over the brutal rape of a five-year-old girl in Delhi, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj on Saturday demanded capital punishment in child rape cases and those involving brutality and barbarity and said the new anti-rape law be made more stringent.
The condition of the five-year-old girl, who was raped allegedly by a 22-year-old man after holding her captive in New Delhi, was stable even as protests erupted in the capital on Saturday against the grisly crime.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is recuperating at All-India Institute of Medical Sciences after a successful coronary bypass surgery, will be taken out of the Intensive Care Unit by Wednesday. "He is responding very well to the treatment. Everything is going as per treatment plan.," Dr Ramakant Panda, a specialist of Mumbai's Asian Heart Institute, who led the team of doctors during the surgery, told PTI.
Human rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila, who has been charged with the offence of attempt to commit suicide by fasting, was on Monday released from judicial custody.
A labourer was killed and six others were injured when suspected militants exploded two bombs in Thoubal district of Manipur, police said.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who underwent an angiography as part of a series of heart-related tests at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, can continue to live a normal life and even discharge his duties as prime minister according to Dr Vivek Jawali, chief cardio-thoracic and vascular surgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals, Bengaluru.
"Lalu Prasad is having trouble breathing for the last two days. On Friday, he was found to be having pneumonia. Considering his age, we have decided to shift him to AIIMS-Delhi on the advice of doctors for better treatment," RIMS Director Dr Kameshwar Prasad said. "He is likely to be shifted to AIIMS today. We have already spoken to the experts at AIIMS," he added.
Shekawat has been ill for the past 2 or 3 days.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took second dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the AIIMS in New Delhi, and asked those eligible for the shot to take it soon to defeat the virus.
Congress MLA and former minister Komatireddy Venkata Reddy observing an indefinite fast in his native Nalgonda district in support of separate Telangana demand was forcibly shifted to a hospital in Hyderabad on Sunday.
A prominent 72-year-old social activist on fast since July 6 demanding implementation of Inner Line Permit System in Manipur was force fed at a state-run hospital after his condition deteriorated.
He had already been granted bail in the Chaibasa Treasury Scam case in October 2020, and in the Deoghar Treasury Scam case in February 2020.
The Supreme Court has dismissed the Centre's petition seeking review of its order quashing the health ministry's move to fix 65 years as the upper age limit for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences director -- which led to the premature retirement of P Venugopal last year.
The AIIMS medical board on Saturday stated that Rajput died by suicide and it was not a murder.
The faculty demanded Ramadoss's removal from the post of president of the institute.
The campaign was started in the wake of government's decision to withhold the salaries of doctors who participated in the anti-reservation strike last month.
Former deputy mayor of Belgaum city and nine medical were detained for alleged links with outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and suspected militant Mohammed Asif who is in police custody.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was discharged early on Thursday morning from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where he underwent coronary angiography, as part of a series of heart-related tests."He has been discharged. He is hale and hearty and has gone back home," Dr K S Reddy, his personal physician, who is heading a multi-disciplinary medical team, said.The 76-year-old prime minister had undergone coronary angiography along with a series of other tests.
As relatives continue to search for their loved ones among the bodies of the victims of the Odisha train tragedy, the Bhubaneswar municipal corporation has said that it will send 30 DNA samples collected from visitors to All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
The student was suspended from the university last year for his alleged role in the violence in the campus in 2017.
Both were rescued from the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express that derailed near Bahanaga Bazar Station on June 2 that had claimed 275 lives and left around 1,200 injured.
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