late freedom fighter laxmi Indira Panda’s grandson Babula Panda, who is now recuperating at the SCB Medical College Hospital here, is likely to stay in the hospital for some more days as the 30-year-old patient is suspected to have developed certain neurological problems.
Retrieved in an unconscious state from near a drain at Mancheswar of Bhubaneswar after he mysteriously disappeared for nine days, Babula was undergoing treatment for kidney ailment at the hospital for over a week. He was scheduled to be discharged from the hospital on Thursday.
“The patient is completely cured of the kidney ailment and his mental status is found to be normal. But we noticed he has difficulties in walking which could be due to neurological problems for which certain tests have been done,” informed Medical College Principal and Medicine Professor Siddhartha Das.
Babula’s disappearance and his mother boarding a wrong train soon after he along with his parents was felicitated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Bhubaneswar on April 16 had triggered a political slugfest between the BJD and the BJP.
Highlighting the woes of Babula and his family suffered, BJD leaders had criticised Modi’s gesture terming it to be “mockery” in the name of felicitation. State BJP leaders nonetheless countered the criticism alleging that former BJD Minister Rabi Nanda and present Minister Pranab Prakash Das were behind the mysterious disappearance of Babula.