"On the ninth day of admission, former Chief Minister of West Bengal Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, 79, remains on intermittent non-invasive ventilatory support," the hospital stated.
Former Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is alert and responding to doctors and visitors, according to the health update provided by Woodlands Multispeciality Hospital on Sunday.
The former Bengal CM was admitted to Woodlands Hospital in Kolkata on July 29 with a lower respiratory tract infection and Type ll respiratory failure.
“Former Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee remains on intermittent non-invasive ventilatory support on the sixth day of his admission. He is alert and is speaking to doctors and visitors,” read a press release of Woodlands Multispeciality Hospital.
“He (Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee) was successfully weaned off from invasive ventilation yesterday and is presently on non-invasive ventilatory support,” authorities at the hospital said.
"He waved at me, I think he is in stable condition...I think his parameters are more or less okay," Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said after coming out of Woodlands Hospital.
"Former Chief Minister of West Bengal Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, 79, was successfully weaned off Invasive ventilation and is presently on non-invasive ventilator support," the statement read.
"Former Chief Minister of West Bengal Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, 79, is on mechanical ventilation. Relevant conservative medical management is being continued. His overall clinical status remains critical but stable," the hospital said.
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