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PANAJI
The household, including doctors and paramedics, in Dona Paula where Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is convalescing have been on high alert after his health parameters faltered and was put on assisted oxygen support.
Sources said, the chief minister continued to be kept on oxygen support after fluid was found to be entering the lungs. The team of doctors in-charge of his treatment are monitoring him round the clock.
A top bureaucrat told The Goan that Parrikar was responding to the treatment although he is being continuously given oxygen support. He continues to remain at his private residence in Dona Paula where all necessary medical equipment is at hand, the bureaucrat added.
Meanwhile, as has been the case since he was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February last year, there is no official bulletin issued either by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) or the State administration on Parrikar’s latest health condition.
Treated mainly at the globally renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York last year, Parrikar has made multiple emergency visits to hospitals in Goa and at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi through his debilitating ailment.
He, however, continued to make sporadic public appearances with multiple medical appendages including a feeding pipe and leg bags. He also has been interacting with bureaucrats and earlier this week held a Cabinet meeting at his private residence.
