PANAJI: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was discharged from Goa Medical College and Hospital where he was being treated and was recuperating from a case of mild dehydration.
The Chief Minister who headed to his residence at Dona Paula is expected to be fit and firing over the next few days and has even requested that files from his office be brought to his residence for his perusal.
“Happy to be home. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes. Wishing you all a very Happy & Colourful #Holi,” the Chief Minister tweeted from his ‘verified’ handle on Twitter.
Staff of the Chief Minister’s Office were seen carrying bundles of files which they said were being taken to the Chief Minister’s home.
Last Friday, February 23, barely a day after he defied odds and presented the state’s financial statement the same day he was discharged from Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital, the chief minister began summoning files from his office which were sanitised and presented to him.
However, by Sunday evening he had to be readmitted to hospital, this time with dehydration.
Parrikar himself admitted that he has been asked to avoid contact in view of a risk of infection as he recovers from his ailment.
When he was admitted, the Chief Minister’s office in a terse statement said the chief minister was admitted on account of “slight dehydration” and low blood pressure.
“He was taking treatment at home, [but] doctors at GMC advised to treat him at the GMC. He is well and responding to treatment and under observation,” the Chief Minister’s Office said in a statement.
The Chief Minister was initially admitted to the Goa Medical College and Hospital after he complained of abdominal pain believed to be food poisoning
The Chief Minister was first hospitalised on February 14 for what was reported to be a case of food poisoning. However, no sooner he was shifted to Mumbai, the state administration informed that the Chief Minister would be “unavailable for next two days as he has to undergo a routine health check-up in Mumbai.”
On February 16, the State Administration informed that the Chief Minister “is well and under observation. He is likely to be discharged in a day or two. It is a case of mild pancreatitis.”
The next day, however, it was reported that the Chief Minister was “under monitoring for his inflamed pancreas” with the assumption that his treatment would be longer than initially anticipated the budget session was curtailed to only four days.
