Kolkata: The condition of veteran CPI(M) leader Jyoti Basu on Wednesday showed slight improvement but he continued to remain critical.
"Basu's blood pressure and pulse are stable at the moment and he has mild fever," AMRI Hospital Superintendent Dr Debashis Sharma told a news agency here.
Basu continues to be on partial ventilation and is
being administered blood pressure stabilising drugs ionotrops,
he said, adding that his sensorium has shown little
improvement.
Doctors have deferred the decision to go for a
tracheotomy surgery to facilitate breathing.
The 95-year-old Marxist leader, who was admitted to
the hospital for pneumonia on January 1, will be given one
more unit of blood today to raise his haemoglobin count, his
personal physician Dr A K Maity said.
His urine output has improved a little and he is
responding to treatment, he said.
A brain CT scan done yesterday on Basu had shown no
change on the previous subdural haematoma.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 13:11