NEW DELHI – Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is in critical condition after a prolonged illness. India’s top politicians are visiting the New Delhi hospital.
Ninety-three-year-old Vajpayee was admitted to AIIMS on June 11 with a kidney tract infection, chest congestion and urine output on the lower side.
In hospital for the last nine weeks, former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s health has worsened since Tuesday and is critical, an official statement by AIIMS said late on Wednesday evening.
The 1924 born leader is under the supervision of Dr Randeep Guleria, a pulmonologist and currently the Director of AIIMS. Dr Guleria has served as personal physician to Atal Bihari Vajpayee for over three decades.
A team of doctors from the nephrology, gastroenterology, pulmonology and cardiology departments is looking after the former Prime Minister, sources had said.
India’s current Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Vajpayee Wednesday night and Vice-President Venkiah Naidu on Thursday.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee served three times as India’s prime minister; for 13 days in 1996, for 11 months from 1998 to 1999, and then from 1998 to 2004. As his health deteriorated, he had slowly withdrawn himself from public life and was confined to his residence for years.
