Former CM remains critical but stable

Former Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is on mechanical ventilation. According to the private hospital’s statement, his overall clinical status remains critical but stable.

The 79-year-old Bhattacharjee was admitted to a private hospital on July 29 with lower respiratory tract infection and Type II respiratory failure.

A multidisciplinary medical team comprising Dr Kaushik Chakraborty (medicine), Dr Soutik Panda (critical care), Dr Susmita Debnath (critical care), Dr Saroj Mandal (interventional cardiology), Dr Ankan Bandyopadhyay (internal medicine and pulmonology), Dr Dhruba Bhattacharya (internal medicine and critical care), Dr Asis Patra (anesthesiology), Dr Dip Narayan Mukherjee (infectious diseases specialist), Dr Semanti Chakraborty (endocrinology), Dr Somnath Maity (general medicine) and Dr Saptarshi Basu (physician and medical superintendent, Woodlands) are closely monitoring his progress.

It was learnt that his health condition had been deteriorating for the last few days. He refused to adhere to the doctor’s advice to get admitted to the hospital. His condition started deteriorating and the oxygen saturation level was dropping quickly. So, the team of doctors attending to him decided to get him admitted to the hospital. In 2021, the former CM was infected with COVID-19 and was admitted to the same hospital.