Sonia Gandhi hospitalised for check-up

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital again for a medical check-up, two days after she was discharged following treatment for illness and a shoulder injury. She had visited the hospital on Wednesday for removal of her stitches from the surgery. Sources said she was admitted again on Wednesday evening for a “routine” medical check-up.

“Mrs Gandhi has been admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital for a minor treatment procedure as per previous plan. She is doing well and is undergoing physiotherapy and rehabilitation,” Dr S.P. Byotra, vice-chairperson (board of management) of the hospital, said on Thursday.

In a medical bulletin, the hospital said she was admitted on Wednesday “as planned at the time of her discharge from the hospital” on August 14. The Congress president had visited the hospital on Wednesday for the removal of stitches from the surgery that she had undergone during her 11-day stay there. “She is likely to stay at the hospital for a couple of days,” said the sources.

“At the time of her discharge from the hospital last week, doctors had said that she was likely to revisit the hospital for further evaluation of her condition. So, she is here for that,” the hospital source said.

Sources also said that she was admitted again and will be at the hospital for few days.

She was admitted to the hospital on August 3 after she had fallen ill during a roadshow in Varanasi. Doctors treating her at the hospital, during the time of discharge, had said that she had recovered from her illness and injury to the left shoulder and was stable.

”Mrs Gandhi is likely to visit the hospital for further evaluation of her condition in the coming week,” D.S. Rana, chairperson of the board of management of the hospital, had said the day she was discharged.

Mrs Gandhi was admitted under the care of Arup Basu, senior consultant, department of pulmonology and chest medicine, and his team.

She was operated upon for a shoulder injury by Prateek Gupta, senior consultant, and his team from the department of orthopaedics and Sanjay Desai from Mumbai.

Mrs Gandhi was shifted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital from Army Research and Referral Hospital, where she was rushed soon after her arrival from Varanasi on August 2.