Vajpayee's infection worsens
Updated On: 06 February, 2009 07:20 PM IST | PTI
Health worries of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee continued on Friday with AIIMS doctors putting him on "mechanical ventilation" after his respiratory infection worsened.
Health worries of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee continued on Friday with AIIMS doctors putting him on "mechanical ventilation" after his respiratory infection worsened.
"He (Vajpayee) continues to have lower respiratory track infection which has worsened since morning. He has be en put on mechanical ventilation in ICU and is being monitored by a team of doctors," Dr Sampath Kumar, head of Cardiac Thoracic Vascular Sciences of AIIMS, said on Friday evening while reading out a brief medical bulletin.
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