Parrikar discharged from AIIMS

October 14, 2018 12:35

Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was on Sunday discharged from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where he has been undergoing treatment for pancreatic ailment, and is likely to return to his home state, sources said.

According to sources in the AIIMS, he was on Sunday morning shifted to ICU for a while after his condition deteriorated.

But sometime back, the administration decided to discharge him, the sources said.

Parrikar, 62, was admitted to Delhi's premier AIIMS on September 15.

"The chief minister is likely to be brought to Goa in a special flight on Sunday from Delhi. The doctors who are treating him at the hospital would certify on Sunday morning whether he is fit to travel back home," the official of the Chief Minister's Office had said Saturday.

If he returns to Goa, Parrikar will stay at his private residence in Panaji, he added. -- PTI

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