NEW DELHI, Jan 24, AFP-Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh underwent successful heart bypass surgery Saturday, doctors said, only months before he is due to lead the ruling Congress into national elections.
“Everything has gone off well and he will be kept in the intensive cardiac care unit for 48 hours for observation,” heart surgeon Sudhir Vaishnav told the Press Trust of India.
The news agency quoted an official of the prime minister's office as saying the 76-year-old Singh was on a ventilator and was expected to regain consciousness on Sunday.
“The entire country is rejoicing because our prime minister has come out successfully from the operation,” Congress spokesman Veerappa Moily said after the procedure, which has raised questions about Singh's political future.
“The doctors are quite confident (about the prime minister's condition),”Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters in the capital.
The premier state-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, where Singh is being treated, was under high security, with armed guards keeping a strict watch. |
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