Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar hospitalised owing to chest pain

According to the Mayor office, Pednekar was having chest pain since last night and today she went for a check-up following which she was hospitalised.

Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar was hospitalised on Sunday as she was complaining of chest pain from Saturday night. Deputy mayor Suhas Wadkar said the chest pain is probably related to Covid recovery. According to the mayor's office, Pednekar had chest pain since last night and so she went for a check-up, following which she was hospitalised.

Kishori Pednekar complained of chest pain on Saturday following which she went for a check-up and got hospitalised.

Kishori Pednekar contracted Covid last year when she was admitted to the Seven Hills Hospital in Andheri.

According to the Global Hospital where she was admitted on Sunday, the mayor is suffering from epigastric pain. "Honourable mayor is presently stable and she is under the care of Dr Praveen Kulkarni, senior cardiologist at Global Hospitals, Parel," said Dr Jigna Shrotriya, medical superintendent at the hospital. A statement from the mayor’s office also said that her condition was stable.

The mayor posted a tweet responding to false reports floating around her health condition from the hospital and said she had dal-khichdi some time back.

The 58-year-old Shiv Sena leader became the mayor of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in 2019.