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Chandy stable; medical board to monitor his health
Doctors treating Chandy, who was hospitalised on Monday, said he was suffering from fever and showed symptoms of pneumonia and was on antibiotics
Former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy, 79, who is undergoing treatment for pneumonia, is stable and a medical board has been constituted to monitor his health.
Health minister Veena George said Chandy is responding well to the treatment. “I talked to doctors and his family. We have constituted an eight-member medical board to monitor his health,” said George, who met Chandy on Tuesday.
George said the board will issue medical bulletins after monitoring his health. She added chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan asked him to visit the ailing Congress leader.
Chandy was hospitalised on Monday. Doctors treating him said he was suffering from fever and showed symptoms of pneumonia and was on antibiotics. They said after his infection subsides, he can go to Bengaluru for follow up treatment for cancer.
A section of Congress workers and Chandy’s relatives complained he was not getting proper treatment. His brother, Alex V Chandy, petitioned Vijayan on Sunday seeking his intervention to ensure best possible treatment.
Chandy, who is suffering from cancer and underwent treatment in Germany and Bengaluru, was not allegedly given proper follow-up treatment. Some alleged they were not allowed to meet him.
Chandy denied the allegations as unfounded and baseless and said his family and the party ensured quality treatment to him. “I am happy with the treatment being provided. The party has extended all help to me,” Chandy said.
On Monday, Congress leaders A K Antony and M M Hassan met Chandy. Chandy Oommen, the former chief minister’s son who returned to Kerala after participating in Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, also criticised a section of the media for levelling baseless allegations against him and his family.
