PM expected to return home soon: PMO

New Delhi, Jan 31 (PTI) Recuperating after a coronary
by-pass surgery, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is
expected to return home soon and doctors are planning to
complete the pre-discharge tests Saturday.

"The Prime Minister is completing the in-hospital phase
of his post-operative recovery period," a PMO spokesperson
said, adding that doctors attending on him at the AIIMS "plan
to complete a range of pre-discharge tests today".

Singh is expected to return home soon, she said.

The Prime Minister had a comfortable night and is going
through an active day-time programme of exercise and
physiotherapy. He has been reading newspapers, watched
television and held discussions with some PMO officials, the
spokesperson said.

"We may not discharge him (the Prime Minister) Saturday
as we want to monitor his condition further," Dr Vijay
D'Silva, one of the doctors attending on him, said earlier in
the day.

He said the Prime Minister's condition was stable and he
followed his morning routine of exercises, reading newspapers
followed by breakfast. He also took a walk outside his room in
the hospital.

Dr D'Silva of Mumbai-based Asian Heart Institute (AHI)
had Friday said that the Prime Minister would be discharged
Saturday if "everything goes right till that time or we might
consider to extend it (his stay) to Sunday."

He said a decision to extend the 76-year-old leader's
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.

The Prime Minister underwent a complex coronary 're-do'
bypass surgery at AIIMS on January 24 and was moved out of the
ICU on January 28. PTI SWT
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