Kolkata : Sourav Ganguly, the BCCI chief and former captain of Team India, will still remain in hospital. Kolkata’s Woodlands Hospital released a statement on Thursday, saying that Ganguly is healthy and feeling well. The doctor said that Ganguly wants to stay in the hospital for one more day, so now he will go home on January 7.
MD and CEO of Woodlands Hospital, Dr. Rupali Basu told reporters in Kolkata, ‘Ganguly is clinically fit. He slept well and had his meal. He wanted to stay in the hospital for another day. So he will go home tomorrow. This is his personal decision.’
#SouravGanguly who is admitted here is doing well. He is clinically fit. He wanted to stay back in the hospital for one more today so he will go home tomorrow: Woodlands Hospital, Kolkata pic.twitter.com/PxNyZHxbEu
— ANI (@ANI) January 6, 2021
According to hospital sources, the formalities required for Ganguly to be discharged from the hospital have been completed, he and his family members have also been given information about the medicine that he will have to take after returning home.
A senior hospital official said, “He is fine and there is no chest pain or any other complication. Our team of doctors had fully monitored his health condition this morning.”
Significantly, 48-year-old Ganguly was admitted to the hospital on Saturday following a ‘mild’ heart attack where he underwent angioplasty. Three of his major arteries leading to the heart were found to be obstructed, a stent has been inserted.
Earlier on Monday, a medical bulletin was issued by the hospital saying that Sourav was given excellent treatment at the appropriate time after suffering a heart attack. Two other coronary blockages i.e. LAD and OM2 need to be treated by angioplasty. Ganguly’s condition is stable, there is no chest pain. The doctor will monitor him.
