PM likely to be discharged Saturday

New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh, who is recuperating after a coronary by-pass surgery,
would be discharged Saturday "if everything goes right", a
senior doctor attending on him said Friday.

"He would be discharged on Saturday afternoon if
everything goes right till that time or we might consider to
extend it (his stay) to Sunday," Dr Vijay D'Silva of
Mumbai-based Asian Heart Institute told PTI.

D'Silva, who is an ICU specialist, said the Prime
Minister, who has slowly started getting back to his routine
activities, said a decision to extend his stay in the hospital
would be taken by the team of doctors led by his personal
physician Dr K S Reddy and AHI surgeon Dr Ramakant Panda.

Though there were reports suggesting that the 76-year-old
leader may be discharged even earlier, doctors felt he needed
some more observation, hospital sources said.

Dr D'Silva said, the Prime Minister started his day by
reading newspapers followed by some basic exercises, a walk
in the corridor after which he had his breakfast.

The Prime Minister, who underwent a complex coronary
bypass surgery at AIIMS on January 24, was moved out of the
ICU January 28 and all his monitoring devices have been
removed. PTI SWT
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