Doctors have advised Congress president Sonia Gandhi to stay put in hospital for another two days. Gandhi was supposed to have been discharged today from Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, a week after undergoing a shoulder-reconstruction surgery.

A board of specialists created to treat her has reviewed her condition had said she was in good health.

The 69-year-old had dislocated and fractured her left shoulder last week during a road show in Varanasi, a part of the Congress' poll campaign in Uttar Pradesh.

Mumbai-based Dr Sanjay Desai was flown in for Gandhi's surgery as he specialises in shoulder reconstruction.

However, since Gandhi had suffered from massive electrolyte imbalance and had severe symptoms including acute diarrhoea and vomiting, doctors were waiting for her to regain strength before discharging her.


Image: Sonia Gandhi at the Varanasi road show on August 2 where she fell ill.