Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today received five new blood vessels for his heart in a complex and high-risk surgical procedure that his doctors predicted would leave him even more active than he was before.
Paramedical staff wheeled Singh into an intensive care unit at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here at 8.55pm after a gruelling 11-hour coronary artery bypass surgery that had begun around 8am.
Doctors said a team from AIIMS and the Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai, had successfully grafted five new blood vessels to address five blockages in his arteries detected during diagnostic tests earlier this week.“The Prime Minister is stable, conscious and he is responding to requests,” K. Srinath Reddy, a senior cardiologist and a member of the medical team involved in Singh’s diagnosis and treatment, said.
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