Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who was taken ill during a roadshow in Varanasi and forced to return to the national Capital, was on Wednesday “stable” and has been shifted to Ganga Ram Hospital in west Delhi.
She was admitted to the Army’s Research and Referral Hospital late on Tuesday night due to high fever.
The 69-year-old veteran Congress chief of the grand old party returned to Delhi by a chartered flight on Tuesday midnight after she had to abandon the 8-km roadshow in Varanasi midway due to sudden illness.
In a Press statement issued by the hospital, Dr DS Rana, Chairman (BOM) at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital said, “Sonia Gandhi has been admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Tuesday at 1:30 pm under the care of Dr Arup Basu and his team from Department of Pulmonology. She is dehydrated. Currently, Gandhi is stable and her further investigations are being conducted. She is advised rest.”
Sources said as Gandhi has previously had undergone treatment at Sir Gang Ram Hospital therefore, she was taken there this time also.
Earlier in the day, AICC media cell in-charge Randeep Surjewala had said she is stable and is recovering under medical supervision.
“Yesterday itself, she had said she would return to Varanasi to meet the people and to have ‘darshan of the historical temple of Kashi Vishwanath Ji’. On return, she was admitted to hospital in Delhi, is stable and is recovering under medical supervision”, he had said in a statement.