New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has undergone a successful surgery and will be required to stay at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for at least seven to eight days.
A total of five by-passes were conducted on the Prime Minister, Dr Rama Kant Panda, a specialist in re-do by-pass flown in from Mumbai's Asian Heart Institute, told reporters.
We started the operation at 7:45 am . The second operation always takes longer and makes it difficult to reach the heart. We did a total of five by-passes. Surgery was the long term answer since there were many blockages. We will take the PM out of the breathing machine in the next 2-3 hrs and PM should stay for three days in the ICU and then 4-5 days more in the hospital,” he said.
Dr K S Reddy, cardiac surgeon at AIIMS and Prime Minister's personal physician, said the PM will be able to attend to some official work in two weeks, to most of the duties in four weeks and will take six weeks to resume office.
“PM was sent to the Operation Theatre at 6:40 am, surgery was done at 8:45 am and was concluded at 7:30 pm. PM was sent back to the ICU at 8:55 pm,” said Dr Reddy.
One reason why the Prime Minister opted for an immediate surgery was he wanted to be ready and fully active well before the elections, Dr Sampath Kumar, Head of the Cardio Vascular Department at the AIIMS said.
Describing Singh as a "tranquil, calm and composed" person, Reddy said the Prime Minister told the doctors before he was wheeled in "I am ready".
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