Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi underwent a surgery at a city hospital to repair a shoulder injury she sustained during her roadshow in Varanasi and was shifted from the intensive care unit after making “steady progress” towards recovery.
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital where she has been admitted said on Thursday all her health parameters are showing improvement and she is soon going to be shifted out of the ICU.
The 69-year-old Gandhi was shifted to the Ganga Ram Hospital on Wednesday afternoon from the Army Research and Referral Hospital, where she was rushed soon after her arrival from Varanasi around midnight on Tuesday.
She had to abandon the 8-km roadshow in Varanasi midway due to sudden illness.
Internationally-acclaimed team of shoulder experts comprising Dr Sanjay Desai from Mumbai and Dr Prateek Gupta from Ganga Ram Hospital treated Gandhi.
Sources said the operation last night to repair her left shoulder lasted nearly two hours.
In a health bulletin released by Ganga Ram Hospital on Thursday, Dr D S Rana , Chairman (Board of Management) said, “Sonia Gandhi is making steady progress towards recovery from her illness. She has also successfully undergone treatment for a shoulder injury by an internationally acclaimed team of shoulder experts comprising of Dr Sanjay Desai from Mumbai and Dr Prateek Gupta from Ganga Ram Hospital. She is recovering well.”