Two stents implanted after fresh angioplasty, Sourav Ganguly stable

Earlier in the day, doctors carried out a series of medical tests on Ganguly, who was hospitalised on Wednesday for the second time in a month, because of a cardiac condition.

Sourav Ganguly, the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and a former India captain, underwent angioplasty again on Thursday. Ganguly, 48, is stable and under observation, according to a media release from Apollo Gleneagles Hospital where he is being treated.

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly (AFP)

“Dr Aftab Khan and the team comprising Dr Ashwin Mehta, Dr Devi Shetty, Dr Ajit Desai, Dr Saroj Mondal and Dr Saptarshi Basu successfully performed angioplasty on Mr Sourav Ganguly… on January 28 and two stents were placed. The procedure was uneventful. Mr Ganguly is stable and under close observation,” said the media release issued on Thursday evening.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited Ganguly after the angioplasty. “I spoke to him and his family. He is doing fine and I can only wish him a speedy recovery,” she said after thanking the team of doctors tending to Ganguly.

Ganguly was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday after complaining of feeling unwell at home where he was recovering on being discharged from Woodlands Multispeciality Hospital on January 7. He had been admitted to the hospital on January 2 after complaining of “chest discomfort, heaviness of the head and a spell of dizziness while performing physical exercises in the home gymnasium,” according to a release from Woodlands then. Ganguly had a stent inserted in the right coronary artery on January 2.