PM continues to make excellent progress

PM Singh continues to maintain excellent progress and has had breakfast with his wife and daughters.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,who is making excellent progress following a successful coronary by-pass surgery,on Tuesday had breakfast with his wife and daughters at the AIIMS in New Delhi.

The 76-year-old Prime Minister continues to maintain excellent progress. On Tuesday morning he had breakfast with his wife and daughters, PM’s Media Adviser Deepak Sandhu said.

“Seeing the Prime Minister’s recovery,we have decided to withdraw the ICU status of his room by late this afternoon,” Dr K S Reddy,the PM’s personal physician,said.

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The room in which Singh is recuperating had been upgraded to an intensive care unit with installation of sophisticated monitoring equipment.

Reddy said Singh has been given solid food and only family members are being allowed to meet him.

Dr Ramakant Panda,a specialist cardiac surgeon from Mumbai’s Asian Heart Institute,who had led the team of doctors during the over 11-hour-long operation,had on Monday indicated that Singh may not require intensive care beyond Wednesday given his quick progress.

However,the doctors are yet to decide on the date of the PM’s discharge from the hospital.

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