The health condition of former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, who was admitted to Kolkata’s Belle Vue hospital on Monday, is stable and gradually improving, according to hospital sources.
According to a report by The Hindu, Chatterjee was admitted to the critical care wing of the hospital, following a brain clot. Hospital sources told the newspaper that he had undergone a hemorrhagic stroke, as a result of the clot.
Chatterjee had been admitted to the hospital on Monday, 25 June following a speech and motion impediment. Although a CT scan had been scheduled for the 89-year-old on Thursday, 28 June, it was later postponed due to the discovery of certain other ailments concerning his lungs, liver and urinary tract.
Chatterjee’s family members as well as the doctors attending him did not disclose the ailment due to which he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.
The family members do not want the ailment to be disclosed. So, I cannot divulge any details. I can just say that he (Chatterjee) is still in the ICU, but his condition is stable and he is gradually improving.Senior hospital executive at Kolkata’s Belle Vue hospital
He had suffered a mild cerebral stroke back in 2014 as well.
According to a report by Scroll, West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay, Opposition leader Abdul Mannan, Left Front chairperson Biman Basu and Left leaders Sujan Chakroborty were among the few who had visited the former speaker at the clinic.
Former member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Chatterjee served as the Lok Sabha speaker from 2004 to 2009. Currently, he is an independent candidate.
Earlier last month, Chatterjee had criticised the West Bengal Election Commission for "failing to conduct free and fair" panchayat elections saying that that democracy has been murdered in the state.
"What we had seen on the day of panchayat polls was unprecedented. Was this the way rural polls were being conducted in the state? State Election Commission failed to conduct free and fair polls. Democracy has been brutally murdered in the state," he had said.
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