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Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar who was on Saturday night admitted to the Goa Medical College and Hospital in Bambolim was put under the care of a team of doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi since Sunday evening.
The AIIMS team is led by Dr Pramod Garg, who is professor of gastroenterology and associate dean (research). The team is dealing with issues related to some internal bleeding faced by Parrikar, sources at the GMC said.
Garg is also expected to conduct Gastrointestinal Endoscopy on Parrikar late on Sunday and depending on the assessment of his condition and the related medical exigencies that could crop up, the AIIMS team is expected to take a call whether to continue treating him at the GMC or air-lift him to Delhi, the sources added.
Goa government’s official quarters, including the Chief Minister’s Office, meanwhile, continued to state that Parrikar’s health was “stable” and that he is being kept at the GMC for ‘observation’.
On Saturday night, in its statement informing that Parrikar was being shifted to the GMC from his private residence, the CMO had said that he will undergo a gastrointestinal endoscopy. However, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane, who visited Parrikar in the hospital contradicted the claim.
Rane said, Parrikar is only under observation and would be discharged in a day or two.
“Nothing has been done,” Rane said when asked if the endoscopy procedure was performed on the chief minister.
Rane also said that Parrikar was a fighter and was fine, adding that he is under observation and there is nothing to worry or speculate about his health.
In February last year, Parrikar was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer after he complained of stomach pain and was overnight shifted from the GMC to Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital.
He was treated in the main at the globally acclaimed Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York between March-June. He also underwent treatment at AIIMS, Delhi and returned in October last year. From then on he is being medically monitored by a team of doctors from the GMC at his private residence in Dona Paula.
Last week, his health began deteriorating since Wednesday when he began facing difficulty to breathe, which was identified as a symptom of fluids in the lungs. He was then put on oxygen support but on Friday was suspected to be suffering from internal hemorrhage, a source familiar with the medical arrangement at the Chief Minister’s private
