Former West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's condition continues to be critical
KOLKATA: Former Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's condition is critical and he is on ventilator support with Type II respiratory failure, after he was hospitalized on Saturday afternoon. He is suffering from acute lung and lower respiratory tract infection. The former Chief Minister was admitted last afternoon at a premier private hospital Woodlands in Kolkata, following respiratory distress.
Bhattacharjee was Chief Minister till 2011, when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ousted the 34-year old left regime. «We tried to stabilize him initially with a non-invasive ventilator after he came to the hospital with a drop in oxygen saturation, increase in carbon dioxide in blood and low blood pressure. Last night, we noticed irregular breathing.
Considering it to be a bad indication, we had to put him on invasive ventilation,» Dr Kausik Chakraborty, who is part of the nine-member medical team treating Bhattacharjee, told mediapersons. «Lungs will improve once infection gets reduced. He is communicating through gestures after we stopped the sedative.
He is cooperating well. We intend to do a CT scan tomorrow morning to understand the extent of infection. We, the doctors, will be present and will do a CT scan in the ventilated condition and bring him back,» Chakraborty said.
«Former Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, 79, is on mechanical ventilation. Relevant conservative medical management is being continued. His overall clinical status remains critical but stable.
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