After a spate of illnesses, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will now travel to Mumbai for medical assistance.
Parrikar’s personal secretary Rupesh Kamat on Monday, 5 March, told the media that the chief minister was expected to travel to Mumbai for further medical checkup, and based on the doctor’s advice may even travel overseas for further treatment.
Quoting an official from the CMO, The Indian Express reported that the CM has set up a three-member committee to look after the affairs of the state in his absence.
The funds for each ministry is approved by the CM. For now, a three-member committee has been formed to decide on the same till the CM recovers. The committee will comprise BJP’s Francis D Souza, MGP’s Sudin Dhavalikar, and Goa Forward’s Vijai Sardesai. While the decision was taken by the CM himself, he is yet to give an official confirmation on this. He will do so before he leaves for Mumbai.Official from CMO to The Indian Express
Parrikar was earlier discharged from Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital on 22 February, where he was undergoing treatment for a pancreatic ailment, in order to present the Budget at the Goa Assembly.
However, he was re-admitted to the Goa Medical College and Hospital, Panaji, on Sunday, 25 February, following complaints of dehydration and blood pressure.
Following the required treatment, state Health Minister Vishwajit Rane had on 26 February said that the chief minister was "absolutely fine and stable.”
Earlier on 17 February, the Goa unit of the BJP denied media reports that Parrikar was expected to undergo surgery. The Lilavati Hospital, too, had issued a statement dismissing the reports as “rumours.”
Reports about Parrikar’s alleged surgery, which had appeared in a section of the local media, were dismissed as false by the CMO. The CMO had said he was under treatment at the Mumbai hospital for "mild pancreatitis.”
Parrikar was rushed to the Mumbai hospital on 15 February, a day after he was admitted to the state-run GMCH near Panaji for stomach pain.
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